Went A-Courting" (Roud number 16). Versions Tex Ritter recorded it as a single in 1935. and sang it again in the film "The Old Corral/ Song of the Gringo" (1936). It is also on the album "Blood in the Saddle". Johnny Cash recorded it on Ballads of the True West (1965). The band Flogging Molly used the Johnny Cash version as an intro for their concerts. The Dubliners recorded it on At Home with the Dubliners (1969). Referenced in the Eudora Welty novel, Delta Wedding. The Mudmen performed this song on their 2012 album, Donegal Danny. The Irish Rovers performed this song on their 1969 album The Life of the Rover. The Irish Descendants performed this song in its traditional Irish form on their album We are the Irish Descendants and re-released it on their compilation album So Far so Good: The Best of the Irish Descendants. Carl Sandburg, poet and Abraham Lincoln biographer, recorded it twice, once in 1964, as "Sam Hall" and later as "Gallows Song." Dennis Hopper sings the opening line of the song in an episode of The Lieutenant, "To Set It Right." Clint Eastwood recites it in the movie Two Mules for Sister Sara. It is referenced in Jim Thompson's first novel, Now and On Earth. It is also referenced in Anthony Powell's 1932 novel, Venusberg Frank Tovey performed the song on his album, Tyranny & the Hired Hand. Steeleye Span included the song (as "Jack Hall") on the album Tempted and Tried in 1989 and also released it as a single in 1990. The song, performed by Terry Gilkyson, was the main musical theme of the 1956 film Star in the Dust directed by Charles F. Haas, with John Agar, Mamie van Doren and Richard Boone as Sam Hall in the main roles. Poul Anderson's 1953 novelette "Sam Hall" features a disgruntled bureaucrat who creates fake records about a rebel named Sam Hall (after the song) who fights against the totalitarian government. Swedish/Dutch troubadour Cornelis Vreeswijk made a Swedish translation called “Mördar-Anders” on his album Visor och oförskämdheter (1965), which also included “Brev från kolonien”, a loose translation of Allan Sherman's “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”. Swill (also of The Men They Couldn't Hang) and the Swaggerband recorded a version of the song for their 2006 album Doh, Ray, ME, ME, ME, Me, Me featuring Cootehill as the location for the execution. Josh White did