Luyện nghe bài hát The Hangman and the Papist

The village square quiet
The still enforced
The streets are even clear of dogs and

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

The is giving dinner to the officers wives
His eldest son is learning how to
The block is hushed and tense
The drawing lots
Who will be the in the dawn?

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

He at the thought of what
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 hears the gallows creaking
Just beyond door
He prays for he has no more to weep

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

Weighs heavy on the minds of all there
The colonel reads the
Which the papist knows by

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

The jailer his hands
And puts his blindfold to his
He leads him through the door before the
The hangman sees his

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

His hands begin to take the strain
His eyes are blind with streaming
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, forgive me, God, we hang him in Thy name
Forgive me, God, we hang him in Thy