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

(Chorus)
Shake the holy water, up the guard
Dying's very easy, waiting's very
A rope was hanging the roof, a sight which puzzles me
I thought a gibbet and a guard make a gallows tree
But now all is revealed, there is the command
My feet are on the trapdoor with a rope my hand
And now the is shaking hands 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 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 is beating on
The trapdoor hardly at all, my life is still my own
They stand me in a with my hands and feet still bound
While a carpenter is for and an explanation 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 nearly
Your life's as good as ended," but I their voices waver
Once more the ?board is shaked? and again I in limbo
While the guards on the trapdoor and my body stands on tip-toe

(Chorus)
They stand me in a corner with my and feet still ties
A warder holds onto the noose, the opens wide
Is it magic or coincidence keeps me on the brink?
It seems to without me, "Will it kill me now?" I think
"Please, I'm tired of living and I really 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 felt the jolt the third and final
My life was spared that 'cos it wasn't theirs to take
Three's the most the law requires, a man could the stake
(Repeat chorus)