Gallows Songs

Famous quotes containing the words gallows and/or songs:

    For when the gallows is high
    Your journey is shorter to heaven.
    —Unknown. The Night before Larry Was Stretched (l. 57–58)

    Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)