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