a version of the song. Black 47 recorded a version of this song for their Green Suede Shoes album, released in 1996. Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator performed the song and included it as a hidden track on the 2006 album, Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails. Richard Thompson performed the song live as an encore on his 1000 Years of Popular Music collection. Oscar Brand performs the song on Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads (vol.1, 1955). In concert, e.g. Le Hibou Coffee House, Ottawa, 1966, Brand used the following lyric: "... My name is Samuel Hall and I hate you one and all, You're a bunch of fuckers all, Goddamn your eyes, Son of a bitch, Shit." If a young person came into the club, Brand would edit this for comic effect to "... Gall darn his eyes, Son of a gun, Shucks." The Pilgrims (s British band) recorded a version of this song on their album, Here To Stay. Poor Angus, a Canadian Celtic and folk band, performed a version of "Sam Hall" on their self-titled album. Rocky Creek, a Dayton, Ohio Celtic bluegrass band performed a version on Our Celtic Beginnings. The Dregs, a band at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, performed a version on their CD, Thank You Sir, May I Have Another? Lynn Riggs included it in his 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs, the play that would later be adapted with new songs as the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!. The Canadian Celtic punk band The Mahones performed a version of the song on their album T.A.F.K.A.H.I.M. (1997). The French singer Alain Bashung recorded a French drum and bass version of this song for his album Fantaisie militaire (1998). The song is renamed "Samuel Hall" and is credited to Olivier Cadiot and Rodolphe Burger. "Sam Hall" is referred in the radio adaptation of "The Remarkable Performance of Mr. Frederick Merridew", a Bert Coules original story from the third series of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2008), in which Mr. Merridew (played by Hugh Bonneville) is a music hall actor who, in the persona of Samuel Hall, recites a version of the song in which he confesses a murder and his defiance against the public. In Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson's Hoka stories, the Hokas sing this song as they are being hanged. [Note: this is comical, as the Hokas' necks are stronger than those of