Luyện nghe bài hát The Hangman and the Papist

The village square stands
The curfew still
The streets are clear of dogs and whores

Like evil bird of prey
The spreads its wings
The people build their fires and bolt their

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

The lot falls on a 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 moon casts a light
On the gloomy walls
The walks his cell, he cannot sleep

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

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

Weighs on the minds of all those there
The colonel reads the
Which the knows by heart

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

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

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

His trembling hands to take the strain
His eyes are blind streaming tears
And he cries for all to

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