Tom Dula

[Bruno47602]

dashing motive!

[DefenderJP55]

i love this song! this version is the best!

[AllUndeadGuild]

Regardless of the supposed "actual" name of the individual the song is about, the name used in the actual lyrics is "Tom Dooley". Hang your head, Tom Dooley, Hang your head and cry; You killed poor Laurie Foster, And you know you're bound to die. You left her by the roadside Where you begged to be excused; You left her by the roadside, Then you hid her clothes and shoes. Hang your head, Tom Dooley, Hang your head and cry; You killed poor Laurie Foster, And you know you're bound to die.

[Ollischniepel]

Mountain Dew by Grandpa Jones, cause he`s from Dixie, Isaid from dixie, and I´m Dixie too.

[biggestMetallicAfan]

Don't get fooled by this guy, im a descendant of him.

The Dula family, that comes from Czechoslovakia is a crime family, we did bootlegging, moonshining and all the works.

My great g ma has a lot of records of him and the dula family, and you know because of all the bootleging and moonshining, is how we purchased and named dula canyon and everything else we bought.

Including land on the strip in vegas which my great great great G Pa sold for 20 bucks.

[niezaleznyrealista]

@biggestMetallicAfan Are you aware that Czechoslovakia was founded in 1918?

[biggestMetallicAfan]

@niezaleznyrealista Yes i know, and my grandpa born in 1931, came directly from there to the U.S where he met my Grandma.

Yes now that i read what i posted i could have alliterated it a little bit better.

I guess i would be a direct descendant or something.

[bulletdeposit]

they didn't even pronounce his name correctly.

[BinLadenMustDie368]

i'm proud to say this music is the great grand father of ROCK N' ROLL!

[cocacolacompany1]

the great gay father of rock'n roll???

[AgentCarter]

one of the many

[TheAmbushes]

Tom Dula (Dooley) (18441868), a Confederate veteran of the Civil War who was tried and hanged shortly after the war for the murder of his fiancee, Laura Foster. Dula was the subject of a top-selling 1958 ballad by the Kingston Trio, entitled "Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley".

=D from wilkes County, NC FTW

[SoBelleofTN]

Facts & dates from Lift up Your Head, Tom Dooley by John Foster West

Murder occurred 134 years ago this May 26, 1866

Ages: Tom Dula-22; Laura Foster 22; Ann Melton 23; and Pauline Foster 22.

Ann Melton and Pauline Foster were first cousins. Laura Foster'was cousin to both

Tom Dula was born June 20, 1844

Tom enlisted in Company K, N.C. Infantry 42nd Regiment, for 3 years or duration on March 15, 1862, age 17.

Article written by the reporter from the N.Y. Herald pp, 118-121.

[sukrammmmmmmmmmmmmmm]

我同意你在它被讀作湯姆杜里，早在60年代我買了一個紀錄的金士­頓三重奏，誰唱這首歌他們的專輯，他們稱之為多利。垂下頭湯姆杜­里，下垂的頭，哭....垂下頭湯姆杜里，可憐的孩子死你 ...

[ohpioneer]

growing up, we would listen to this album in my father's car. this was my favorite track. everyone in the car would sing the song at the top of their lungs.

[guywith3]

i think it was Laura's jelious sister that killed her and left tom for the blame.

[boogeley123]

i love these songs!!! lol

[ConfederateAvenger99]

Tom Dula is one of my ancestors, and I think it was Tom's ex-girlfriend that really killed Laura Foster.

[mysteriousyoungman]

I am from the county where this happened and the song is Hang Your Head Tom DOOLEY. Need to get this right. Even though the last name was Dula everyone in the area pronounced it "Dooley".

[deacondog1]

I don't see how this is a civil war song anyway 'cause Laura Foster wasn't killed until 1866.

[V87776]

well it might have happened in 1866, but thats around the time Good ol'e Rebel was wrote so

the yanks get a Post-war song

b/c so do we lol

[SoBelleofTN]

I agree with you on it being pronounced "Tom Dooley", back in the 60's I bought a record by the "Kingston Trio", who sang this song on their album and they called it "Dooley". Hang down your head Tom Dooley, hang down your head and cry....Hang down your head Tom Dooley, poor boy your goin to die...

[cryingsoftly]

The person the song was based on was named Tom Dula...

[PlanetaryEulogy81]

But the local dialect pronounces that name "Dooley." The earliest known record of the song came when Grayson and Whittier cut it back in the 1920s (if you pay close attention, the tune is clearly cribbed from old ballad/fiddle tune favorite "Handsome Molly"). G.B. Grayson was himself the nephew of the "Sherriff Grayson" in the song. The Grayson and Whittier version uses the local pronunciation - "Dooley."

[mariopmoreno]

hello.

what is the name of the county?

[mysteriousyoungman]

Wilkes County NC. Oh, and this can be considered a Civil War song because not only did Tom serve in the Confederacy but he was defended by Zebuloon Baird Vance who was first Colonel of the 26th NC and later became the war governor of NC.

[TennesseeShine]

The 26th NC is a damn fine regiment of great Honor! If its Colonel defended Tom Dula he must beleived thoroughly in his innocence.

[Rubystars1000]

hang your head Tom Dula! Hang your head and cry!

[bullyboy1863]

took her by the roadside begged her to be excused

took her by the roadside hid her hottin' shoes :O

[higgolini]

I think it's "took her by the roadside, hid her hat n' shoes"