There's a tree a-growing on the hillside
With a limb for all the boys to see
And the wind that's tying to its branches
Says leave another man belongin' see
So pa** the jug and we'll drink once more
To the men wherever they may be
That swung in the wind on a rope from a limb
Limb of a cottonwood tree
There was men caught a-thieving horses
Heaven rest their souls from up above
Some stole the charms from a woman's arms
Devil take the man who steals love
So pa** the jug and we'll drink once more
To the men wherever they may be
That swung in the wind on a rope from a limb
Limb of a cottonwood tree
When that tree was a-dying on the hillside
All the boys rode up there to the draw
And the wind that's tying to its branches
Says "never, never laugh at the law"
So pa** the jug and we'll drink once more
To the men wherever they may be
That swung in the wind on a rope from a limb
Limb of a cottonwood tree
Limb of a cottonwood tree