Hannah Lee

Richard Mills / Stan Jones

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Nick Reynolds (vocal, guitar), Bob Shane (vocal, guitar), John Stewart (vocal, guitar), Dean Riley(bass):
            Album: STAY AWHILE (Original Decca LP record release) DL4656/74656 - 1965 Album: STAY AWHILE (Folk Era Records CD re-issue of previously available tracks from Decca LP releases) FE5435CD / FE5435CS - (c)(p) 1993 THE STEWART YEARS - expected early in 2000
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Posted by Fred to "K3 Chat" on 5/15/2000, 1:45 pm 4.35.90.127 I've been listening to the STAY AWHILE CD this morning and I keep playing and replaying HANNA LEE. . . . There's also some great harmonica work on this cut. Does anyone know who's playing it?
Posted by Triofan to "K3 Chat" on 5/16/2000, 2:32 am , in reply to "Re: Hanna Lee" Ben Blake states that the harmonica on "Gonna Go Down The River" [which also appears on STAY AWHILE] was played by Billy Roberts who wrote The Leaves' 1966 top 40 hit "Hey Joe". The session notes only state that other information is unavailable. I have no idea how Ben knows who played the harmonica, but if he's right, I would guess that it's the same player on Hanna Lee. Sounds like it to me anyway.

John . . . The Triofan

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Artist's Name ALBUM CATALOG NO.
Ken Curtis Gunsmoke's Festus Haggen Calls Out Ken Curtis DOT  DLP-25859
Johnny Western Gunfight At O.K. Corral (CD) Bear Family BCD 15429 AH
Johnny Western Heroes and Cowboys (3-CD set) Bear Family BCD 15552 CI

 

Hanna Lee
You dusty eyes were soft and glowin'
when first I met you, Hannah Lee.
There was no way for me a-knowin'
the sorrow your sweet caress would bring to me.

Chorus:
High, high, high is the gallows.
(Yeah, and it's long) long as the rope that waits for me.
High as the gallows.
They'll hang me for your sins, my Hannah Lee.

You shot and killed your cruel husband
because you found you loved but me,
And then you lied before the jury
and they blamed me for your sins, my Hanna Lee.

Chorus

Down at the jail on hangin' mornin',
I heard you tell them you had lied.
Your dusty eyes were soft and glowin'
and I saw you hang your head and cry.

High, high, high is the gallows.
(Yeah, and it's long) long as the rope that waits for me.
High as the gallows.
When they hang my lovin' darlin', Hannah Lee.

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