Luyện nghe bài hát Part Xi (the Hanging Song)

Wake up John, it's time to go along John and don't be slow
Come along John, be slow Wake up John, it's time to go
up John, it's time to go
A priest joins the procession just to help me
With a warder at my elbow and another at my
Marching in the morning a path I've lately seen
I was in this garden, am I still within my dream?
The echo of my is the beating of a drum
And all the earth is with life's sweet hum
We filed in silence, shuffled through a door
The place where life is for the letter of the law

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

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

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