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, don't be slow up John, it's time to go
Wake up John, time to go
A joins the procession just to help me kneel
a warder at my elbow and another at my heel
Marching in the down a path I've lately seen
I was sleeping in this garden, am I still my dream?
The echo of my heartbeat is the beating of a
And all the earth is singing with sweet hum
We filed in solemn silence, shuffled through a
The where life is taken for the letter of the law

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

(Chorus)
There he to me "Have you anything to say?"
My mouth is dry, my throat is tight, I "Drop away"
now surrounds me, my heart is beating on
The trapdoor hardly at all, my life is still my own
They stand me in a corner my hands and feet still bound
While a 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 good as ended," but I hear their voices
Once the ?board is shaked? and again I hang in limbo
While the guards on the trapdoor and my body stands on tip-toe

(Chorus)
They me in a corner with my hands and feet still ties
A warder onto the noose, the trapdoor opens wide
Is it or coincidence that keeps me on the brink?
It seems to work without me, "Will it kill me now?" I
"Please, I'm tired of living and I 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 felt the jolt the third and time
My life was spared that morning 'cos it theirs to take
Three's the most the law requires, a man could feel the
(Repeat chorus)