Luyện nghe bài hát The Hangman and the Papist

The village square quiet
The curfew enforced
The streets are even of dogs and whores

some evil bird of prey
The spreads its wings
The people build their and bolt their doors

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weighs on the minds of all those there
The reads the sentence
Which the papist by heart

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

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 from his
He his younger brother standing proud
The hangman to protest
But is to proceed

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

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