Luyện nghe bài hát Part Xi (the Hanging Song)

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

(Chorus)
Shake the holy water, 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 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 hands with me
"My duty I must out, you poor fellow," says he
A is tied around my feet and a bag upon my head
And then the noose which separates the from the dead

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

(Chorus)
They stand me in a corner my hands and feet still ties
A warder holds onto the noose, the trapdoor wide
Is it or coincidence that keeps me on the brink?
It seems to work without me, "Will it 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 sorry, forgive these hands of mine"
He drew the bolt and I felt the jolt the third and final
My was spared that morning 'cos it wasn't theirs to take
Three's the most the law requires, a man could the stake
(Repeat chorus)