Lyrics:

Father, you bring me the silver
Father, you bring me the gold
What you bring me dear father
Save me from the gallows pole
What did ya, yeah, what did ya bring me
Save me from the gallows pole

Son I brought you the silver
Son I brought you the gold
Son I brought a little everything
Save me from the gallows pole
I brought it, yeah, said I brought you
Save me from the gallows pole

In olden times, years ago
When you put a man behind prison bars in the jailhouse
If his family got fifteen, twenty, thirty dollars
They could save him from the gallows pole
'Cause they gonna hang him if he don't bring a little money
Everybody come to see the boy at the jailhouse
He was married too
They ran upside the jailhouse window
Looking for who brung him something
His father come first, now y'all come his mother
Well, mother you bring me the silver
Mother you bring me the gold
What you bring me dear mother
Save me from the gallows pole
What did ya, yeah, what did ya bring me
Save me from the gallows pole

Mama brought everything she could rake and scrape
She wasn't gonna let the boy hang
Well, son I brought you the silver
Son I brought you the gold
Son I brought a little everything
Save me from the gallows pole
I brought it, yeah, said I brought you
Save me from the gallows pole

Next come his wife
You know she done cleaned out the house
Brought everything but the slop jar
Even brought the twelve string guitar
Well, wife you bring me the silver
Wife you bring me the gold
What you bring me dear wife
Save me from the gallows pole
What did ya, yeah, what did ya bring me
Save me from the gallows pole

Babe I brought you the silver
Babe I brought you the gold
Babe I brought a little everything
Save me from the gallows pole
I brought it, yeah, said I brought you
Save me from the gallows pole

Alright!