Luyện nghe bài hát The Hangman and the Papist

The village square stands
The still enforced
The are even clear of dogs and whores

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

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

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

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

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

He the waiting gallows creaking
Just beyond door
He prays for he has no more tears to

The day begins to
A muffled drums to sound
A crowd begins to in the square
The presence of the hangman in his mask

Weighs heavy on the of all those there
The colonel the sentence
the papist knows by heart

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

The jailer binds his
And puts his to his eyes
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 to protest
But is to proceed

His trembling hands begin to the strain
His eyes are blind with tears
And he for all to hear

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