Luyện nghe bài hát Part Xi (the Hanging Song)

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

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

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

(Chorus)
They stand me in a corner with my hands and still ties
A warder holds onto the noose, the trapdoor wide
Is it magic or that keeps me on the brink?
It seems to work me, "Will it kill me now?" I think
"Please, I'm of living and I really want to die"
I was to the scaffold and I heard the hangman cry
"Lee, I'm truly sorry, forgive hands of mine"
He drew the bolt and I the jolt the third and final time
My life was spared morning 'cos it wasn't theirs to take
Three's the most the law requires, a man could the stake
(Repeat chorus)