&sq=&lang=&file=File:Question_book-new.svg){kind=small} | This article needs additional citations for verification. (November 2011) |
"Sam Hall" (Roud 369) is an English folk song about an unrepentant criminal condemned to death for robbing the rich to feed the poor. Prior to the mid-19th century it was called "Jack Hall", after Jack Hall, a thief who was hanged at Tyburn in 1707. Jack Hall's parents sold him as a climbing boy for one guinea, which is why most versions of the song identify Sam or Jack Hall as a chimney sweep.[1]
- ^ Roy Palmer: The Sound of History (1988)