Luyện nghe bài hát Part Xi (the Hanging Song)

Wake up John, it's time to go Come along John and be slow
Come along John, be slow Wake up John, it's time to go
Wake up John, time to go
A priest joins the procession just to help me
a warder at my elbow and another at my heel
Marching in the morning down a path I've lately
I was sleeping in this garden, am I within my dream?
The echo of my is the beating of a drum
And all the earth is singing with life's hum
We filed in solemn silence, shuffled through a
The place where life is taken for the of the law

(Chorus)
the holy water, summon up the guard
Dying's very easy, very hard
A was hanging from the roof, a sight which puzzles me
I thought a gibbet and a guard would make a gallows
But now all is revealed, there is the command
My feet are on the trapdoor with a rope my hand
And now the executioner is shaking with me
"My duty I carry out, you poor fellow," says he
A strap is tied my feet and a bag upon my head
And then the noose separates the living from the dead

(Chorus)
There he whispers to me "Have you to say?"
My mouth is dry, my is tight, I answer "Drop away"
now surrounds me, my heart is beating on
The trapdoor hardly moves at all, my life is my own
They stand me in a corner with my hands and feet bound
While a carpenter is for and an explanation found
"The rain has warped the timbers," I hear the say
"It's but it worked well, I tried it yesterday"
"All is mended now," they say, "your ordeal's nearly
Your life's as good as ended," but I their voices waver
Once more the ?board is and again I hang in limbo
While the guards jump on the trapdoor and my body stands on

(Chorus)
They stand me in a corner with my hands and feet still
A holds onto the noose, the trapdoor opens wide
Is it magic or coincidence keeps me on the brink?
It seems to without me, "Will it kill me now?" I think
"Please, I'm tired of and I really want to die"
I was to the scaffold and I heard the hangman cry
"Lee, I'm truly sorry, these hands of mine"
He drew the and I felt the jolt the third and final time
My life was spared that morning 'cos it wasn't theirs to
the most the law requires, a man could feel the stake
(Repeat chorus)