For tend us well and hear this song
This song that we are singin’
About this humble carpenter
And how he got to swingin’

He were well known from County Dunn
From noble men to fool
And though his skill were lackin’ much
He possessed a mighty tool

Chorus:
Oh, whip shelerry, hang shelerry
Flop de-diddle-dee
Well hung by the gallows tree, me boys
Well hung by the high gallows tree

With the ladies he were favored
To them he were quite dear
And when his sentence, it came down
Each lass did shed a tear

For Sheriff John did witness this
The crime for which he swings
For any man would kill the one
Who pounds where he but pinked
Chorus

And all the lasses of County Dunn
Where there that fateful morn’
To pay a tearful faretheewell
To the county’s favorite thorn

The horse did bray
The rope went taut
The carpenter did hang
And all the men of County Dunn
With glee this song they sang!

Chorus (thrice)

Oh, whip shelerry, hang shelerry
Flop de-diddle-dee
(Flop de-diddle-dee)
Well hung by the gallows tree, me boys
Well hung by the high gallows tree