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