Woody Guthrie Slipknot Lyrics

Did you ever see a hangman tie a slipknot?
Did you ever see a hangman tie a slipknot?
I've seen it many a time and he winds, he winds
After thirteen times he's got a slipknot

Tell me will that slipknot slip, no it will not
Will that slipknot slip, no it will not
Slip around your neck, but it won't slip back again
Slipknot, slipknot, that slipknot

Did you ever lose your father on a slipknot?
Did you ever lose your father on a slipknot?
They hung him from a pole, and they shot him full of holes Left him there to rot on that slipknot

Tell me who makes the laws for that slipknot?
Who makes the laws for that slipknot?
Who says who will go to the calaboose?
Get the hangman's noose on a slipknot

I don't know who makes the law for that slipknot
I don't know who makes the law for that slipknot
But the bones of many a men are whistling in the wind
Just because they tied their laws with a hangknot