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, be slow Wake up John, it's time to go
Wake up John, it's to go
A priest joins the procession just to help me
With a at my elbow and another at my heel
in the morning down a path I've lately seen
I was in this garden, am I still within my dream?
The echo of my heartbeat is the beating of a
And all the is singing with life's sweet hum
We filed in silence, shuffled through a door
The place where life is for the letter of the law

(Chorus)
Shake the holy water, summon up the
Dying's very easy, waiting's hard
A rope was from the roof, a sight which puzzles me
I thought a and a guard would make a gallows tree
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 shaking with me
"My I must carry out, you poor fellow," says he
A strap is tied around my feet and a bag upon my
And then the noose which separates the living from the

(Chorus)
There he whispers to me "Have you to say?"
My mouth is dry, my throat is tight, I "Drop away"
now surrounds me, my heart is beating on
The trapdoor moves 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 found
"The rain has warped the timbers," I the hangman say
"It's funny but it well, I tried it yesterday"
"All is mended now," they say, "your ordeal's over
Your life's as good as ended," but I hear their voices
Once more the ?board is shaked? and I hang in limbo
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 onto the noose, the opens wide
Is it magic or that keeps me on the brink?
It seems to work without me, "Will it me now?" I think
"Please, I'm tired of living and I want to die"
I was taken to the scaffold and I heard the cry
"Lee, I'm truly sorry, forgive 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 theirs to
Three's the the law requires, a man could feel the stake
(Repeat chorus)