Luyện nghe bài hát The Hangman and the Papist

The village stands quiet
The curfew enforced
The streets are even clear of dogs and

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

The mayor is dinner to the officers wives
His eldest son is how to fawn
The barrack block is and tense
The soldiers lots
Who will be the in the dawn?

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

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

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

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

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

heavy on the minds of all those there
The colonel the sentence
Which the papist knows by

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

The jailer his hands
And puts his blindfold to his
He leads him through the before the crowd
The hangman his victim

And the blood from his face
He sees his younger brother proud
The hangman to protest
But is to proceed

His trembling begin to take the strain
His are blind with streaming tears
And he cries for all to

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