Luyện nghe bài hát Part Xi (the Hanging Song)

Wake up John, time to go Come along John and don't be slow
Come along John, don't be 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 and another at my heel
Marching in the morning down a I've lately seen
I was sleeping in garden, am I still within my dream?
The echo of my heartbeat is the of a drum
And all the earth is singing with life's hum
We filed in solemn silence, shuffled through a
The place where life is for the letter of the law

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

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

(Chorus)
stand me in a corner with my hands and feet still ties
A warder holds onto the noose, the trapdoor wide
Is it magic or coincidence that me on the brink?
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 taken to the scaffold and I the hangman cry
"Lee, I'm truly sorry, forgive these of mine"
He drew the bolt and I felt the jolt the third and final
My life was spared that 'cos it wasn't theirs to take
Three's the the law requires, a man could feel the stake
(Repeat chorus)