Luyện nghe bài hát Part Xi (the Hanging Song)

Wake up John, it's to go Come along John and don't be slow
Come along John, don't be Wake up John, it's time to go
up John, it's time to go
A priest joins the procession just to me kneel
With a at my elbow and another at my heel
Marching in the morning down a path lately seen
I was sleeping in this garden, am I 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 place where is taken for the letter of the law

(Chorus)
Shake the holy water, summon up the
Dying's very easy, waiting's very
A was hanging from the roof, a sight which puzzles 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 with a rope around my hand
And now the executioner is hands with me
"My duty I must out, you poor fellow," says he
A strap is tied my feet and a bag upon my head
And then the noose which separates the living the dead

(Chorus)
he whispers 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 hardly moves at all, my life is still my own
They stand me in a corner with my hands and feet bound
While a is called for and an explanation found
"The rain has warped the timbers," I hear the say
"It's funny but it worked well, I it yesterday"
"All is mended now," say, "your ordeal's nearly over
Your as good as ended," but I hear their voices waver
Once more the ?board is shaked? and again I hang in
While the jump 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 holds the noose, the trapdoor opens wide
Is it magic or coincidence that keeps me on the
It to work without me, "Will it kill me now?" I think
"Please, I'm of living and I really want to die"
I was taken to the scaffold and I the hangman cry
"Lee, I'm truly sorry, these hands of mine"
He drew the bolt and I the jolt the third and final time
My life was spared that morning 'cos it wasn't to take
Three's the most the law requires, a man could the stake
(Repeat chorus)