Luyện nghe bài hát The Hangman and the Papist

The village square stands
The curfew enforced
The streets are even clear of and whores

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

The is giving dinner to the officers wives
His son is learning how to fawn
The barrack block is and tense
The soldiers drawing
Who will be the hangman in the

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

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

And the full moon casts a light
On the gloomy prison
The papist walks his cell, he cannot

He hears the gallows creaking
Just beyond door
He prays for he has no tears to weep

The day begins to
A drums begins to sound
A crowd begins to gather in the
The presence of the in his terrifying mask

Weighs heavy on the minds of all there
The reads the sentence
Which the knows by heart

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

The binds his hands
And puts his blindfold to his
He leads him the door before the crowd
The hangman sees his

And the blood drains from his
He sees his younger standing proud
The hangman tries to
But is ordered to

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

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