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 John, don't be slow Wake up John, it's time to go
up John, it's time to go
A priest the procession just to help me kneel
With a at my elbow and another at my heel
Marching in the morning down a path I've lately
I was sleeping in this garden, am I still my dream?
The echo of my is the beating of a drum
And all the earth is singing life's sweet hum
We in solemn 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 very
A rope was hanging from the roof, a sight which me
I thought a gibbet and a guard would make a gallows
But now all is revealed, there is the command
My feet are on the trapdoor with a 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 from the dead

(Chorus)
There he whispers to me "Have you to say?"
My mouth is dry, my is tight, I answer "Drop away"
Silence now surrounds me, my is beating on
The hardly moves at all, my life is still my own
They stand me in a with my hands and feet still bound
a carpenter is called 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 now," they say, "your ordeal's nearly over
Your life's as good as ended," but I hear voices waver
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 corner with my hands and feet ties
A holds onto the noose, the trapdoor opens wide
Is it magic or that 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 the hangman cry
"Lee, I'm truly sorry, forgive these of mine"
He drew the bolt and I felt the jolt the and final time
My life was spared that morning 'cos it theirs to take
the most the law requires, a man could feel the stake
(Repeat chorus)