Throughout history, there's been many songs written about different killers. This one is the story of a sheriff Grayson, a beautiful young woman, and a condemned man named Tom Dooley... Tomorrow morning at sunrise, Tom Dooley... must hang...

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry;
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die

I met her on the mountain
There I took her life;
I killed her on the mountain
Stabbed her with my knife

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry;
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die

This time tomorrow
They'll be hanging me;
If it wasn't for sheriff Grayson
I'd been in Tennessee

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry;
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die

This time tomorrow
Reckon where I'll be;
Down in some lonesome valley
Hangin' from a white oak tree

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry;
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die

Poor boy, you're bound to die...