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