Luyện nghe bài hát Part Xi (the Hanging Song)

Wake up John, it's time to go along John and don't be slow
Come along John, don't be slow up John, it's time to go
Wake up John, time to go
A priest joins the procession just to help me
With a at my elbow and another at my heel
Marching in the down a path I've lately seen
I was in this garden, am I still within my dream?
The echo of my heartbeat is the of a drum
And all the earth is with life's sweet hum
We in solemn silence, shuffled through a door
The place where life is for the letter of the law

(Chorus)
Shake the holy water, up the guard
Dying's very easy, very hard
A rope was from the roof, a sight which puzzles me
I thought a gibbet and a guard make a gallows tree
But now all is revealed, there is the command
My feet are on the with a rope around my hand
And now the executioner is shaking hands me
"My duty I carry out, you poor fellow," says he
A strap is around my feet and a bag upon my head
And then the noose which separates the living the dead

(Chorus)
he whispers to me "Have you anything to say?"
My mouth is dry, my is tight, I answer "Drop away"
Silence now me, my heart is beating on
The trapdoor hardly moves at all, my is still my own
They stand me in a corner with my hands and feet bound
While a carpenter is called for and an found
"The rain has the timbers," I hear the hangman say
"It's but it worked well, I tried it yesterday"
"All is mended now," they say, "your ordeal's nearly
Your as good as ended," but I hear their voices waver
Once more the ?board is shaked? and I hang in limbo
While the guards jump on the and my body stands on tip-toe

(Chorus)
They stand me in a with my hands and feet still ties
A warder onto the noose, the trapdoor opens wide
Is it magic or that keeps me on the brink?
It seems to work without me, "Will it me now?" I think
"Please, I'm of living and I really want to die"
I was taken to the scaffold and I heard the cry
"Lee, I'm truly sorry, these hands of mine"
He drew the bolt and I felt the jolt the third and time
My life was spared morning 'cos it wasn't theirs to take
Three's the most the law requires, a man could the stake
(Repeat chorus)