《Hanging Song》歌词

歌曲： Hanging Song

所属专辑：History Of Fairport Convention

歌手： Fairport Convention

时长： 05:27

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Hanging Song - Fairport Convention (公平港口大会)[00:00:00]

Wake up John it's time to go Come along John[00:00:01]

And don't be slow [00:00:04]

Come along John don't be slow Wake up John [00:00:05]

It's time to go [00:00:08]

Wake up John it's time to go [00:00:08]

A priest joins the procession just to help me kneel [00:00:31]

With a warder at my elbow and another at my heel [00:00:35]

Marching in the morning down a path I've lately seen [00:00:39]

I was sleeping in this garden [00:00:43]

Am I still within my dream [00:00:44]

The echo of my heartbeat is the beating of a drum [00:00:49]

And all the earth is singing with life's sweet hum [00:00:53]

We filed in solemn silence shuffled through a door [00:00:58]

The place where life is taken for the letter of the law [00:01:01]

Shake the holy water summon up the guard [00:01:08]

Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [00:01:12]

A rope was hanging from the roof [00:01:19]

A sight which puzzles me [00:01:21]

I thought a gibbet and a guard would[00:01:22]

Make a gallows tree [00:01:24]

But now all is revealed stamped[00:01:26]

There is the command [00:01:28]

My feet are on the trapdoor with a rope[00:01:29]

Around my hand [00:01:32]

And now the executioner is shaking hands with me [00:01:35]

"My duty I must carry out you poor fellow " says he [00:01:39]

A strap is tied around my feet[00:01:44]

And a bag upon my head [00:01:46]

And then the noose which separates the living[00:01:47]

From the dead [00:01:50]

Shake the holy water summon up the guard [00:01:54]

Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [00:01:58]

There he whispers to me "Have you anything to say "[00:02:05]

My mouth is dry my throat is tight [00:02:09]

I answer "Drop away" [00:02:11]

Silence now surrounds me my heart is beating on [00:02:12]

The trapdoor hardly moves at all [00:02:16]

My life is still my own [00:02:18]

They stand me in a corner with my hands[00:02:51]

And feet still bound [00:02:53]

While a carpenter is called for[00:02:54]

And an explanation found [00:02:56]

"The rain has warped the timbers "[00:02:59]

I hear the hangman say [00:03:01]

"It's funny but it worked well I tried it yesterday" [00:03:03]

"All is mended now " they say "[00:03:09]

Your ordeal's nearly over [00:03:11]

Your life's as good as ended "[00:03:13]

But I hear their voices waver [00:03:15]

Once more the board is shaked [00:03:17]

And again I hang in limbo [00:03:18]

While the guards jump on the trapdoor[00:03:20]

And my body stands on tip-toe [00:03:21]

Shake the holy water summon up the guard [00:03:26]

Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [00:03:29]

They stand me in a corner with my hands[00:03:37]

And feet still ties [00:03:39]

A warder holds onto the noose [00:03:40]

The trapdoor opens wide [00:03:42]

Is it magic or coincidence[00:03:45]

That keeps me on the brink [00:03:47]

It seems to work without me [00:03:49]

"Will it kill me now " I think [00:03:50]

"Please I'm tired of living and I really want to die" [00:03:55]

I was taken to the scaffold[00:03:59]

And I heard the hangman cry [00:04:00]

"Lee I'm truly sorry forgive these hands of mine" [00:04:02]

He drew the bolt and I felt the jolt the third[00:04:06]

And final time [00:04:08]

My life was spared that morning 'cos[00:04:11]

It wasn't theirs to take [00:04:13]

Three's the boat the law requires [00:04:15]

A man could feel the stake [00:04:16]

Shake the holy water summon up the guard [00:04:28]

Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [00:04:31]

Shake the holy water summon up the guard [00:04:39]

Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [00:04:43]

Shake the holy water summon up the guard [00:04:50]

Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [00:04:53]

Shake the holy water summon up the guard [00:05:01]

Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [00:05:04]

Shake the holy water summon up the guard [00:05:12]

Dying's very easy waiting's very hard[00:05:15]