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The Hanging Song letra
Wake up John, it's time to go Come along John and don't be slow
Come along John, don't be slow Wake up John, it's time to go
Wake up John, it's time to go
A priest joins the procession just to help me kneel
With a warder at my elbow and another at my heel
Marching in the morning down a path I've lately seen
I was sleeping in this garden, am I still within my dream?
The echo of my heartbeat is the beating of a drum
And all the earth is singing with life's sweet hum
We filed in solemn silence, shuffled through a door
The place where life is taken for the letter of the law
Shake the holy water, summon up the guard
Dying's very easy, waiting's very hard
A rope was hanging from the roof, a sight which puzzles me
I thought a gibbet and a guard would make a gallows tree
But now all is revealed, stamped there is the command
My feet are on the trapdoor with a rope around my hand
And now the executioner is shaking hands with me
"My duty I must carry out, you poor fellow," says he
A strap is tied around my feet and a bag upon my head
And then the noose which separates the living from the dead
Shake the holy water, summon up the guard
Dying's very easy, waiting's very hard
There he whispers to me "Have you anything to say?"
My mouth is dry, my throat is tight, I answer "Drop away"
Silence now surrounds me, my heart is beating on
The trapdoor hardly moves at all, my life is still my own
They stand me in a corner with my hands and feet still bound
While a carpenter is called for and an explanation found
"The rain has warped the timbers," I hear the hangman say
"It's funny but it worked well, I tried it yesterday"
"All is mended now," they say, "your ordeal's nearly over
Your life's as good as ended," but I hear their voices waver
Once more the?board is shaked? And again I hang in limbo
While the guards jump on the trapdoor and my body stands on tip-toe
Shake the holy water, summon up the guard
Dying's very easy, waiting's very hard
They stand me in a corner with my hands and feet still ties
A warder holds onto the noose, the trapdoor opens wide
Is it magic or coincidence that keeps me on the brink?
It seems to work without me, "Will it kill me now?" I think
"Please, I'm tired of living and I really want to die"
I was taken to the scaffold and I heard the hangman cry
"Lee, I'm truly sorry, forgive these hands of mine"
He drew the bolt and I felt the jolt the third and final time
My life was spared that morning 'cos it wasn't theirs to take
Three's the?boat? The law requires, a man could feel the stake
Shake the holy water, summon up the guard
Dying's very easy, waiting's very hard
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- A Calling-On Song
- A Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
- Alison Gross
- All Around My Hat
- Awake, Awake
- Bachelor's Hall
- Barnet Fair
- Betsy Bell And Mary Gray
- Black Jack Davy
- Blackleg Miner
- Blacksmith
- Boys Of Bedlam
- Cadgwith Anthem
- Cam' Ye O'er Frae France
- Captain Coulston
- Chanticleer
- Copshawholme Fair
- Corbies
- Dance With Me
- Dark-eyed Sailor
- Demon Lover
- Dogs And Ferrets
- Drink Down THe Moon
- Edward
- Edwin
- Elf Call
- Erin
- False Knight On The Road
- Femele Drummer
- Fighting For Strangers
- Fisherman's Wife
- Following Me
- Four Nights Drunk
- Galtee Farmer
- Gamble Gold
- Gaudete
- Gentleman Soldier
- Go From My Window
- Gone To America
- Gower Wassail
- Hard Times of Old England
- Hares On The Mountain
- Harvest Of The Moon
- Heir Of Linne
- Horkstow Grange
- Hunting The Wren
- I Live Not Where I Love
- I See His Blood Upon The Rose
- Isabel
- Jack Hall
- John Barleycorn
- King Henry
- Lanercost
- Let Her Go Down
- Little Sir Hugh
- London
- Long Lankin
- Long-A-Growing
- Longbone
- Lord Randall
- Lovely On The Water
- Lowlands Of Holland
- Lyke Wake Dirge
- Marigold / Harvest Home
- Marrowbones
- Montrose
- My Johnny Was A Shoemaker
- My Love
- New York Girls
- One Misty Moisty Morning
- One Night As I Lay on My Bed
- Orfeo/Nathan's Reel
- Padstow
- Peace On The Border
- Rag Doll
- Rave On
- Rogues In A Nation
- Rosebud In June
- Sails Of Silver
- Saucy Sailor
- Scarecrow
- Seagull
- Senior Service
- Seven Hundred Elves
- Seventeen Come Sunday
- Sheep-Crook And Black Dog
- Sir James The Rose
- Skewball
- Some Rival
- Spotted Cow
- Stephen
- Sweep, Chimney Sweep
- Tam Lin
- Tell Me Why
- The Ballad Of Easy Rider
- The Black Freighter
- The Blacksmith
- The Bold Poachers
- The Bonny Bunch Of Roses
- The Deserter
- The Elf Knight
- The Flowers Of The Forest
- The Fox
- The Hanging Song
- The Hexhamshire Lass
- The Hills of Greenmore
- The Hiring Fair
- The Lark In The Morning
- The Lobster
- The Maid And The Palmer
- The Royal Forester
- The Shaking Of The Sheets
- The Song Will Remain
- The Time Is Near
- The Twelve Witches
- The Ups And Downs
- The Weaver And The Factory Maid
- The Wee Wee Man
- The Wife Of Ushers Well
- They Called Her Babylon
- Thomas The Rhymer
- Three Drunken Maidens
- Two Butchers
- Two Magicians
- Where Are They Now
- You Will Burn
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