Luyện nghe bài hát Part Xi (the Hanging Song)

Wake up John, it's time to go Come along John and be slow
along John, don't be slow Wake up John, it's time to go
Wake up John, it's to go
A joins the procession just to help me kneel
With a warder at my and another at my heel
Marching in the morning down a path I've 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 life's hum
We filed in solemn silence, 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, waiting's very
A rope was hanging the roof, a sight which puzzles me
I thought a gibbet and a would make a gallows tree
But now all is revealed, stamped there is the
My feet are on the trapdoor with a rope my hand
And now the executioner is shaking hands me
"My duty I must carry out, you poor fellow," he
A strap is tied around my feet and a bag upon my
And then the which separates the living from the dead

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

(Chorus)
They stand me in a corner with my and feet still ties
A warder holds onto the noose, the opens wide
Is it magic or coincidence that keeps me on the
It seems to work without me, "Will it kill me now?" I
"Please, I'm tired of living and I really 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 felt the jolt the third and time
My life was spared morning 'cos it wasn't theirs to take
Three's the the law requires, a man could feel the stake
(Repeat chorus)