Luyện nghe bài hát The Hangman and the Papist

The square stands quiet
The curfew still
The are even clear of dogs and whores

Like some evil of prey
The scaffold spreads its
The people build their fires and bolt doors

The mayor is dinner to the officers wives
His son is learning how to fawn
The block is hushed and tense
The soldiers drawing
Who be the hangman in the dawn?

The lot on a young man
Who has for but a year
His is in the village close nearby

He shivers at the thought of
Hes forced to do day
He who it is, who has to die?

And the full casts a cold light
On the prison walls
The papist his cell, he cannot sleep

He hears the waiting gallows
Just beyond that
He for he has no more tears to weep

The day to break
A muffled drums begins to
A crowd to gather in the square
The of the hangman in his terrifying mask

heavy on the minds of all those there
The reads the sentence
the papist knows by heart

He has failed to show to the King
His crime is thus God himself
And in His name he hang
The papist, head held high, not a thing

The jailer binds his
And his blindfold to his eyes
He leads him through the door before the
The hangman his victim

And the blood drains his face
He sees his brother standing proud
The hangman tries to
But is to proceed

His hands begin to take the strain
His eyes are blind with tears
And he cries for all to

Forgive me, God, we hang him in Thy
Forgive me, God, we him in Thy name
me, God, we hang him in Thy name
Oh, please me, God, we hang him in Thy name
Forgive me, God, we him in Thy name