Luyện nghe bài hát Part Xi (the Hanging Song)

Wake up John, it's time to go Come John and don't be slow
Come along John, don't be slow Wake up John, time to go
up John, it's time to go
A joins the procession just to help me kneel
With a 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 within my
The of my heartbeat is the beating of a drum
And all the earth is singing life's sweet hum
We in solemn silence, shuffled through a door
The place life is taken for the letter of the law

(Chorus)
the holy water, summon up the guard
Dying's easy, waiting's very hard
A was hanging from the roof, a sight which puzzles me
I thought a gibbet and a guard would make a gallows
But now all is revealed, stamped there is the
My feet are on the trapdoor a rope around my hand
And now the executioner is hands with me
"My duty I must carry out, you poor fellow," he
A strap is tied 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 hardly moves at all, my life is still my own
stand me in a corner with my hands and feet still bound
While a carpenter is 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," they say, "your 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 stand me in a corner with my hands and feet ties
A warder holds the noose, the trapdoor opens wide
Is it or coincidence that keeps me on the brink?
It seems to work me, "Will it kill me now?" I think
"Please, I'm tired of and I really want to die"
I was to the scaffold and I heard the hangman cry
"Lee, I'm sorry, forgive these hands of mine"
He drew the bolt and I the jolt the third and final time
My life was that morning 'cos it wasn't theirs to take
the most the law requires, a man could feel the stake
(Repeat chorus)