Intro
Em B x 7
A E G
VERSE 1
B G A B
B priest joins the procession just to help me kneel
C#m D#m E Em
With a warder at my elbow and another at my heel
B G A B
Marching in the morning down a path I've lately seen
C#m D#m E Em
I was sleeping in this garden, am I still within my dream?
B G A B
The echo of my heartbeat is the beating of a drum
C#m D#m E Em
And all the earth is singing with life's sweet hum
B G A B
We filed in solemn silence, shuffled through a door
C#m D#m A B
The place where life is taken for the letter of the law
CHORUS
B E F#
Shake the holy water, summon up the guard
C# B A G#m
Dying's very easy, waiting's very hard
VERSE 2
G#m C#m
B rope was hanging from the roof, a sight which puzzles me
G#m C#
I thought a gibbet and a guard would make a gallows tree
F# A
But now all is revealed, stamped there is the command
B C#
My feet are on the trapdoor with a rope around my hand
B G A B
And now the executioner is shaking hands with me
C#m D#m E Em
"My duty I must carry out, you poor fellow," says he
B G A B
B rope is tied around my feet and a bag upon my head
C#m D#m E Em
And then the noose which separates the living from the dead
CHORUS
VERSE 3
G#m C#m
There he whispers to me "Have you anything to say?"
G#m C#m
My mouth is dry, my throat is tight, I answer "Drop away"
F# A
Silence now surrounds me, my heart is beating on
B C#
The trapdoor hardly moves at all, my life is still my own
VIOLIN SOLO
B G A B x8
B G A B
They stand me in a corner with my hands and feet still bound
C#m D#m E Em
While a carpenter is called for and an explanation found
B G A B
"The rain has warped the timbers," I hear the hangman say
C#m D#m E Em
"It's funny but it worked well, I tried it yesterday"
G#m C#m
"All is mended now," they say, "your ordeal's nearly over
G#m C#
Your life's as good as ended," but I hear their voices waver
F# A
Once more the bolt is shaken and again I hang in limbo
B C#
While the guards jump on the trapdoor and my body stands on tip-toe
CHORUS
VERSE 4
B G A B
They stand me in a corner with my hands and feet still tied
C#m D#m E Em
B warder holds onto the noose, the trapdoor opens wide
B G A B
Is it magic or coincidence that keeps me on the brink?
C#m D#m E Em
It seems to work without me, "Will it kill me now?" I think
G#m C#m
"Please, I'm tired of living and I really want to die"
G#m C#
I was taken to the scaffold and I heard the hangman cry
F# A
"Lee, I'm truly sorry, forgive these hands of mine"
B C#
He three\w the bolt and I felt the jolt the third and final time
G#m C#m
My life was spared that morning 'cos it wasn't theirs to take
G#m C#
Three's the most the law requires, a man to feel the stake
CHORUS x2
- 1. Chord Gitar Fairport Convention - Wake Up John The Hanging Song Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar A#)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Fairport Convention - Wake Up John The Hanging Song Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar A#)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan