Red Rock to hang You bet You gon' wait 'round to watch it? You know I am. I wanna hear her neck snap with my own two ears And that, little lady, is why they call him "The Hangman." When the handbill says "Dead or Alive," the rest of us shoot ya' in the back from up on top of a perch somewhere, bring ya' in dead over a saddle. But when John Ruth The Hangman catches ya', you don't die by no bullet in the back. When the Hangman catches you, you hang.