Hang down your head Tome Dooley,
Hang down your head and cry,
Hang down your head Tom Dooley,
Pour boy you're bound to die

I met her on the mountain,
There I took her life.
Mother on the mountain,
I stabbed her with my knife.

Hang down your head Tome Dooley,
Hang down your head and cry,
Hang down your head Tom Dooley,
Pour boy you're bound to die.

The time tomorrow
Reck on where I'll be,
Had'nt been for Grayson
I'd have been Tennessee.