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