Luyện nghe bài hát Part Xi (the Hanging Song)

Wake up John, it's time to go Come along and don't be slow
Come along John, don't be slow up John, it's time to go
Wake up John, time to go
A joins the procession just to help me kneel
With a warder at my elbow and at my heel
in the morning down a path I've lately 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 silence, shuffled through a door
The where life is taken for the letter of the law

(Chorus)
Shake the holy water, summon up the
very easy, waiting's very hard
A rope was hanging the roof, a sight which puzzles me
I thought a gibbet and a guard would a gallows tree
But now all is revealed, there is the command
My feet are on the with a rope around my hand
And now the executioner is hands with me
"My I must carry out, you poor fellow," says he
A is tied around my feet and a bag upon my head
And then the noose which the living 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 surrounds me, my heart is on
The hardly moves at all, my life is still my own
They stand me in a corner with my hands and feet bound
While a carpenter is called for and an found
"The rain has warped the timbers," I hear the say
"It's funny but it worked well, I it yesterday"
"All is mended now," they say, "your ordeal's over
Your life's as as ended," but I hear their voices waver
Once more the ?board is shaked? and again I in limbo
the guards jump on the trapdoor and my body stands on tip-toe

(Chorus)
They stand me in a corner with my hands and feet still
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 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 truly sorry, these hands of mine"
He drew the bolt and I felt the jolt the third and final
My life was spared that morning 'cos it theirs to take
Three's the most the law requires, a man could feel the
(Repeat chorus)