Tom Dula Lyrics - Singles - John Hughes

Hang down your head Tom Dooley 

Hang down your head and cry 

Hang down your head Mrs. Melton 

Your boy is bound to die 

Tom and Mrs. Melton were lovers 

Tom loved her cousins too 

Pauline and Laura Foster 

What's a poor boy to do? 

(Chorus) 

Tommy now won't you marry me 

Daddy thinks i've been defiled 

Tommy won't you run and marry me 

Tom Dooley I carry your child 

(chorus) 

Hang down your head Tom Dooley 

Now it's a Hollywood lie 

It was early in the morning 

Laura stole her Daddy's horse 

she was off to elope with Tom Dooley 

instead she met a deadly force 

(Chorus) 

As Tom stood on the gallows 

prepared to meet his death 

he held a hand out in front of him 

i never harmed a hair on her head 

(chorus)