《The Hangman And The Papist(Album Version)》歌词

歌曲： The Hangman And The Papist(Album Version)

所属专辑：From The Witchwood

歌手： The Strawbs

时长： 04:11

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The Hangman And The Papist - The Strawbs[00:00:00]

The village square stands quiet[00:00:45]

The curfew still enforced[00:00:47]

The streets are even clear of dogs and whores[00:00:50]

Like some evil bird of prey[00:00:56]

The scaffold spreads its wings[00:00:59]

The people build their fires and bolt their doors[00:01:01]

The mayor is giving dinner to the officers' wives[00:01:07]

His eldest son is learning how to fawn[00:01:13]

The barrack block is hushed and tense[00:01:18]

The soldiers drawing lots[00:01:21]

Who will be the hangman in the dawn[00:01:24]

The lot falls on a young man[00:01:33]

Who has served for but a year[00:01:35]

His home is in the village close nearby[00:01:38]

He shivers at the thought of what[00:01:44]

He's forced to do next day[00:01:47]

He wonders who it is who has to die[00:01:50]

And the full moon casts a cold light[00:01:55]

On the gloomy prison walls[00:01:58]

The papist walks his cell he cannot sleep[00:02:01]

He hears the waiting gallows creaking[00:02:06]

Just beyond that door[00:02:09]

He prays for he has no more tears to weep[00:02:12]

The day begins to break[00:02:21]

A muffled drums begins to sound[00:02:23]

A crowd begins to gather in the square[00:02:26]

The presence of the hangman in his terrifying mask[00:02:32]

Weighs heavy on the minds of all those there[00:02:37]

The colonel reads the sentence[00:02:43]

Which the papist knows by heart[00:02:46]

He has failed to show allegiance to the King[00:02:48]

His crime is thus with God himself[00:02:54]

And in His name he must hang[00:02:57]

The papist head held high says not a thing[00:03:00]

The jailer binds his hands[00:03:08]

And puts his blindfold to his eyes[00:03:10]

He leads him through the door before the crowd[00:03:13]

The hangman sees his victim[00:03:19]

And the blood drains from his face[00:03:22]

He sees his younger brother standing proud[00:03:25]

The hangman tries to protest[00:03:30]

But is ordered to proceed[00:03:33]

His trembling hands begin to take the strain[00:03:36]

His eyes are blind with streaming tears[00:03:41]

And he cries for all to hear[00:03:44]

Forgive me God we hang him in Thy name[00:03:47]

Forgive me God we hang him in Thy name[00:03:52]

Forgive me God we hang him in Thy name[00:03:58]

Forgive me God we hang him in Thy name[00:04:03]