《Hanging Song》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:24] Make a gallows tree

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

[00:01:28] There is the command

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

[00:01:32] Around my hand

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:50] From the dead

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:02:53] And feet still bound

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

[00:02:56] And an explanation found

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:03:39] And feet still ties

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

[00:03:42] The trapdoor opens wide

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:04:08] And final time

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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