Tonart: G minor•
Intro 1
Gm
Cm
Eb
Cm
Am
Dsus4
D
Gm
F
Gm
Eb
Cm
Gm
F
Eb
Cm
Gm
D
Gm
Verse 1
Gm
The village square stands quiet
Bb
The curfew still enforced
Cm
The streets are even clear
Verse 2
some evil bird of prey
Bb
The scaffold spreads its wings
Cm
The people build their fires
Eb
and bolt their doors
Verse 3
Eb
Cm
The mayor is giving dinner
Cm
Gm
Eb
F
His eldest son is learning how to fawn
Cm
Gm
Bb
The barrack block is hushed and tense
F
The soldiers drawing lots
Cm
Gm
Bb
Who will be the hangman in the dawn?
F
Verse 4
Cm
Gm
The lot falls on a young
man
Bb
Who has served for but a year
Cm
Eb
His home is in the village close nearby
Verse 5
Gm
He shivers at the thought of what
Bb
He’sforced to do next day
Cm
He wonders who it is, who has to die?
Verse 6
Eb
And the full moon casts a cold light
F
On the gloomy prison walls
Cm
Gm
Bb
The papist walks his cell, he cannot sleep
F
Verse 7
Cm
Gm
He hears the waiting gallows creaking
Bb
F
Just beyond that door
Cm
Gm
He prays for he has no
Bb
F
more tears to weep
Verse 8
F
Gm
The day begins to break
Bb
A muffled drums begins to sound
Cm
Eb
A crowd begins to gather in the square
Gm
The presence of the hangman
Bb
in his terrifying mask
Verse 9
Cm
Weighs heavy on the minds
The colonel reads the sentence
F
Which the papist knows by heart
Verse 10
Cm
He has failed to show allegi
Gm
Bb
F
ance to the King
Cm
Gm
His crime is thus with God himself
Bb
F
And in His name he must hang
Cm
The papist, head held high,
Gm
Bb
says not a thing
F
Verse 11
Gm
The jailer binds his hands
Bb
And puts his blindfold to his eyes
Cm
He leads him through the
Eb
door before the crowd
Gm
The hangman sees his victim
Verse 12
Bb
And the blood drains from his face
Cm
He sees his younger brother
The hangman tries to protest
F
But is ordered to proceed
Verse 13
Cm
His trembling hands be
Gm
Bb
F
gin to take the strain
Cm
His eye s are blind with
Bb
F
And he cries for all to hear
Verse 14
Bb
F
we hang him in Thy name
Forgive me, God,
we hang him in Thy name
Gm
Bb
F
we hang him in Thy name
Cm
Oh, please forgive me, God,
Gm
Bb
F
we hang him in Thy name
Gm
Bb
we hang him in Thy name
Outro 1
F
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D
F
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