Hanging Song-Fairport Convention

[ti:Hanging Song] [ar:Fairport Convention] [al:History Of Fairport Convention] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hanging Song - Fairport Convention (公平港口大会) [00:01.20]Wake up John it's time to go Come along John [00:04.36]And don't be slow [00:05.45]Come along John don't be slow Wake up John [00:08.15]It's time to go [00:08.99]Wake up John it's time to go [00:13.25] [00:31.20]A priest joins the procession just to help me kneel [00:34.22] [00:35.07]With a warder at my elbow and another at my heel [00:39.08] [00:39.81]Marching in the morning down a path I've lately seen [00:42.35] [00:43.28]I was sleeping in this garden [00:44.98]Am I still within my dream [00:48.90] [00:49.88]The echo of my heartbeat is the beating of a drum [00:52.59] [00:53.43]And all the earth is singing with life's sweet hum [00:58.33]We filed in solemn silence shuffled through a door [01:00.98] [01:01.88]The place where life is taken for the letter of the law [01:07.61] [01:08.47]Shake the holy water summon up the guard [01:11.09] [01:12.10]Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [01:17.86] [01:19.31]A rope was hanging from the roof [01:21.27]A sight which puzzles me [01:22.24] [01:22.92]I thought a gibbet and a guard would [01:24.95]Make a gallows tree [01:25.77] [01:26.61]But now all is revealed stamped [01:28.18]There is the command [01:29.09] [01:29.92]My feet are on the trapdoor with a rope [01:31.57] [01:32.27]Around my hand [01:34.00] [01:35.93]And now the executioner is shaking hands with me [01:38.71] [01:39.60]"My duty I must carry out you poor fellow " says he [01:44.23]A strap is tied around my feet [01:46.11]And a bag upon my head [01:47.24] [01:47.91]And then the noose which separates the living [01:49.40] [01:50.09]From the dead [01:53.33] [01:54.52]Shake the holy water summon up the guard [01:57.34] [01:58.18]Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [02:04.08] [02:05.80]There he whispers to me "Have you anything to say " [02:08.29] [02:09.20]My mouth is dry my throat is tight [02:11.01]I answer "Drop away" [02:11.79] [02:12.78]Silence now surrounds me my heart is beating on [02:15.46] [02:16.42]The trapdoor hardly moves at all [02:18.11]My life is still my own [02:19.19] [02:51.44]They stand me in a corner with my hands [02:53.69]And feet still bound [02:54.75]While a carpenter is called for [02:56.34]And an explanation found [02:59.21] [02:59.85]"The rain has warped the timbers " [03:01.47]I hear the hangman say [03:02.46] [03:03.39]"It's funny but it worked well I tried it yesterday" [03:09.18] [03:09.99]"All is mended now " they say " [03:11.72]Your ordeal's nearly over [03:12.62] [03:13.42]Your life's as good as ended " [03:15.05]But I hear their voices waver [03:16.30] [03:17.02]Once more the board is shaked [03:18.61]And again I hang in limbo [03:19.96] [03:20.62]While the guards jump on the trapdoor [03:21.92]And my body stands on tip-toe [03:24.75] [03:26.24]Shake the holy water summon up the guard [03:29.02] [03:29.92]Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [03:35.36] [03:37.24]They stand me in a corner with my hands [03:39.29]And feet still ties [03:40.31] [03:40.92]A warder holds onto the noose [03:42.44]The trapdoor opens wide [03:45.62]Is it magic or coincidence [03:46.75] [03:47.43]That keeps me on the brink [03:48.75] [03:49.27]It seems to work without me [03:50.87]"Will it kill me now " I think [03:55.59]"Please I'm tired of living and I really want to die" [03:58.45] [03:59.24]I was taken to the scaffold [04:00.80]And I heard the hangman cry [04:02.05] [04:02.76]"Lee I'm truly sorry forgive these hands of mine" [04:05.89] [04:06.50]He drew the bolt and I felt the jolt the third [04:08.46]And final time [04:10.73] [04:11.99]My life was spared that morning 'cos [04:13.71]It wasn't theirs to take [04:14.68] [04:15.46]Three's the boat the law requires [04:16.95]A man could feel the stake [04:18.58] [04:28.29]Shake the holy water summon up the guard [04:31.99]Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [04:37.68] [04:39.47]Shake the holy water summon up the guard [04:42.25] [04:43.16]Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [04:48.82] [04:50.42]Shake the holy water summon up the guard [04:53.95]Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [04:59.57] [05:01.20]Shake the holy water summon up the guard [05:04.93]Dying's very easy waiting's very hard [05:10.34] [05:12.19]Shake the holy water summon up the guard [05:14.88] [05:15.73]Dying's very easy waiting's very hard