The Whipping Post

In the colony of Delaware
 A long time ago
 There once stood a sign saying
 "Stranger, beware!
 Beware of the whipping post!"
 A young man rode into this town
 To seek his fortune there
 He read the sign but he laughed aloud
 For his heart held not a care
 The next sight that befell his eye
 He noticed so much more
 It was the mayor's black-eyed daughter
 Stepping out her door
 (The whipping post, the whipping post)
 If you don't keep your place
 (The whipping post, the whipping post)
 You will soon embrace
 The way she smiled it warmed his heart
 He fell in love that day
 But her father found them there alone
 And he had this to say
 "The likes of you aren't good enough
 To have my daughter's hand
 Leave this town before the dawn
 Or die a broken man"
 (The whipping post, the whipping post)
 Was this to be his fate?
 (Yes, he feared the whipping post)
 But he could not run away
 So they tied him to the post that day
 Before his loved one's eye
 But she ran between him and the lash
 She tried to save his life
 Her father cried to stop the whip
 But he was now too late
 The singing lash went through the air
 And struck her lovely face
 (The whipping post, the whipping post)
 The evil that you do
 (The whipping post, the whipping post)
 You bring men to their doom
 Upon his knees the mayor wept
 "I know now I was wrong"
 He took his daughter in his arms
 And freed the stranger's bonds
 And to this day the legend lives
 So all who love will know
 Their love so strong that it lived on
 And defied the whipping post
 (The whipping post, the whipping post)
 (The whipping post, the whipping post)
 (The whipping post, the whipping post)