They call me hanging Johnny; AWAY-I-OH, They say I hang for money. SO HANG, BOYS, HANG! Why did you hang your daddy; And then your mother laddie? They say I hung my mother; And then I hung my brother. I hung my sister Nancy; Because I took a fancy. A rope, a beam, a ladder; I hung them all together. They call me hanging Johnny; But I never hung nobody. I'd hang a brutal mother; The same as any other. I'd hang a noted liar; I'd hang a bloated friar. I'd hang all wrong and folly; And hang to make things jolly. Come hang and sway together; And hang for finer weather. They call me hanging Johnny; But I never hung nobody.