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