The Hangman And The Papist chords by
Dave Cousins
Rick Wakeman

N/A

Key: G minor

Intro 1

F#m

Bsus4

Verse 1
Em Em 
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The village square stands quiet
G G 
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The curfew still enforced
Am Am 
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The streets are even clear
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of dogs and whores
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Like

Verse 2

some evil bird of prey

The scaffold spreads its wings

The people build their fires

and bolt their doors

Verse 3
C C 
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Am Am 
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The mayor is giving dinner
D D 
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to the officers’ wives
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Em Em 
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C C 
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D D 
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His eldest son is learning how to fawn
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Em Em 
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G G 
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The barrack block is hushed and tense
D D 
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The soldiers drawing lots
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Em Em 
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G G 
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Who will be the hangman in the dawn?
D D 
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Verse 4
Am Am 
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Em Em 
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The lot falls on  a young
man
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Who has served for but a year
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C C 
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His home is in the village close nearby

Verse 5

He shivers at the thought of what

He’sforced to do next day

He wonders who it is, who has to die?

Verse 6

And the full moon casts a cold light

On the gloomy prison walls

The papist walks his cell, he cannot sleep

Verse 7
Am Am 
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Em Em 
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He hears the waiting gallows creaking
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D D 
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Just beyond that door
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Em Em 
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He prays for he has no
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D D 
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more tears to weep

Verse 8
D D 
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Em Em 
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The day begins to break
G G 
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A muffled drums begins to sound
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C C 
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A crowd begins to gather in the square
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The presence of the hangman
G G 
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in his terrifying mask

Verse 9

Weighs heavy on the minds

of all those there

The colonel reads the sentence

Which the papist knows by heart

Verse 10
Am Am 
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He has failed to show allegi
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G G 
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D D 
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ance to the King
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Em Em 
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His crime is thus with God himself
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D D 
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And in His name he must hang
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The papist, head held high,
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G G 
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says not a thing
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Verse 11
Em Em 
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The jailer binds his hands
G G 
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And puts his blindfold to his eyes
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He leads him through the
C C 
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door before the crowd
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The hangman sees his victim

Verse 12
G G 
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And the blood drains from his face
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He sees his younger brother
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standing proud
The hangman tries to protest
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But is ordered to proceed

Verse 13
Am Am 
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His trembling hands be
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D D 
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gin to take the strain
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His eye s are blind with
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streaming tears
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D D 
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And he cries for all to hear

Verse 14
Am Am 
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Forgive me, God,
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D D 
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we hang him in Thy name
Forgive me, God,
we hang him in Thy name
Am Am 
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Forgive me, God,
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G G 
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D D 
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we hang him in Thy name
Am Am 
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Oh, please forgive me, God,
Em Em 
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G G 
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D D 
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we hang him in Thy name
Am Am 
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Forgive me, God,
Em Em 
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G G 
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we hang him in Thy name

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