Tonalità: G minor
Intro 1
Em
G
Am
C
Em
G
Am
C
Verse 1
Em
The village square stands quiet
G
The curfew still enforced
Am
The streets are even clear
C
of dogs and whores
Verse 2
Em
Like some evil bird of prey
G
The scaffold spreads its wings
Am
The people build their fires
C
and bolt their doors
Verse 3
C
The mayor is giving dinner
D
to the officers’ wives
Am
Em
G
D
His eldest son is learning how to fawn
Am
The barrack block is
Em
hushed and tense
D
The soldiers drawing lots
Am
Em
G
Who will be the hangman in the dawn?
D
Verse 4
Em
The lot falls on a young man
G
Who has served for but a year
Am
C
His home is in the village close nearby
Verse 5
Em
He shivers at the thought of what
G
He’s forced to do next day
Am
He wonders who it is, who has to die?
Verse 6
C
And the full moon casts a cold light
D
On the gloomy prison walls
Am
Em
The papist walks his cell,
D
he cannot sleep
Verse 7
Am
Em
He hears the waiting gal lows creaking
D
Just beyond that door
Am
Em
He prays for he has no
D
more tears to weep
Verse 8
Em
The day begins to break
G
A muffled drums begins to sound
Am
C
A crowd begins to gather in the square
Em
The presence of the hangman
G
in his terrifying mask
Verse 9
Am
Weighs heavy on the minds
C
of all those there
The colonel reads the sentence
D
Which the papist knows by heart
Verse 10
Am
He has failed to show al
Em
D
legiance to the King
Am
Em
His crime is thus with God himself
D
And in His name he must hang
Am
The papist, head held high,
Em
D
says not a thing
Verse 11
Em
The jailer binds his hands
G
And puts his blindfold to his eyes
Am
He leads him through
C
the door before the crowd
Em
The hangman sees his victim
Verse 12
G
And the blood drains from his face
Am
He sees his younger brother
C
standing proud
The hangman tries to protest
D
But is ordered to proceed
Verse 13
Am
His trembling hands be
Em
G
D
gin to take the strain
Am
His eyes are blind with
Em
G
streaming tears
D
And he cries for all to hear
Verse 14
Am
Forgive me, God,
Em
G
D
we hang him in Thy name
Am
Forgive me, God,
Em
G
D
we hang him in Thy name
Am
Forgive me, God,
Em
G
D
we hang him in Thy name
Oh, please forgive me, God, we hang him in
Thy name
Forgive me, God, we hang him in Thy name
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