Kunci: F minor
Verse 1
Em
G
Em
D#
Em
The village
Em
G
with the curfew still in force.
G#
The streets are even clearer
C
Em
of dogs and horns.
Like an evil bird of prey,
G
the scaffold spreads its wings.
G#
The people build their fires
C
Em
and bolt their doors
C
The mayor is giving dinner
D
to the officers and wives
C
D
His eldest son is learning how to form
C
The barrack block is host and tense,
D
the soldiers drawing lots
C
G
D
Who will be the hangman in the dawn?
Em
The lot falls on a young man
G
who has served for but a year
C
Em
His home is in the village close nearby
He shivers at the thought
G
of what he's forced to do next day
Am
C
Em
And he wonders who it is that has to die
C
The full moon casts a cold light
D
on the gloomy prison walls
C
D
The papist walks his cell, he cannot sleep
C
He hears the waiting gallows
creaking
C
G
He prays for he has no
Em
The day begins to break,
G
the muffled drums begin to sound
Am
C
Em
The crowd begins to gather in the square
The presence of the hangman
Am
C
Weighs heavy on the mind
C
The colonel reads the sentence
D
which the papist knows by heart
C
He has failed to show allegiance to the king
D
C
His crime is thus with God himself,
C
G
D
The paper's kettle high, says not a thing
Em
The jailer binds his hands,
G
puts the blindfold to his eyes
Am
C
He leads him through the door,
The hangman sees his victim,
G
and the blood drains from his face
C
Em
brother standing proud
C
The hangman tries to protest,
D
but is ordered to proceed
C
His trembling hands begin
streaming tears,
G
D
we hang him in thy name
G
D
we hang him in thy name
G
D
we hang him in thy name
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