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