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

(Chorus)
the holy water, summon up the guard
Dying's very easy, very hard
A rope was hanging from the roof, a sight puzzles me
I thought a and a guard would make a gallows tree
But now all is revealed, stamped is the command
My feet are on the trapdoor a rope around my hand
And now the executioner is shaking with me
"My duty I carry out, you poor fellow," says he
A strap is tied around my feet and a bag upon my
And the noose which separates the living from the dead

(Chorus)
he whispers to me "Have you anything to say?"
My is dry, my throat is tight, I answer "Drop away"
Silence now surrounds me, my heart is on
The trapdoor hardly at all, my life is still my own
They stand me in a corner my hands and feet still bound
While a carpenter is for and an explanation found
"The has warped the timbers," I hear the hangman say
"It's funny but it worked well, I it yesterday"
"All is mended now," they say, "your ordeal's nearly
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 guards jump on the trapdoor and my body on tip-toe

(Chorus)
They stand me in a with my hands and feet still ties
A warder holds onto the noose, the opens wide
Is it magic or coincidence that me on the brink?
It to work 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, these hands of mine"
He drew the bolt and I felt the the third and final time
My life was spared that 'cos it wasn't theirs to take
the most the law requires, a man could feel the stake
(Repeat chorus)