The Day They Hung That Vintish Fellow

Uncomfortable and creepy, in slow mumbles of lute, this is a very short children’s rhyme often recited by magistrates in Vintas, warning people what is to become of them if they resort to stealing and murder. They get the hangman’s noose. The story tells of a random Vintish fellow who had caused peril in the southern lands of Atur, stole jewelry from a queen, and killed a little four year old girl, the daughter of a high ranking noble. A silent, unmoving, heartless crowd of the townfolk gather round the gallows to watch him hang. They do not applaud or cheer, but watch in utter quiet in the rain, as the trap door is about to drop him to his death.

From Album: Tales of a Time Before Volume II

Type: Single Song

Instrument: Flute\Lute

Length: 3 min

Genre: Children Rhyme 

File Type: MP4 

Composer and Lyricist: Jack Buie