The Hangman And The Papist chords by
Dave Cousins
Rick Wakeman

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Key: G minor•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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The village square stands quiet

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The curfew still enforced

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The streets are even clear

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of dogs and whores

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Verse 2

some evil bird of prey

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The scaffold spreads its wings

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The people build their fires

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and bolt their doors

Verse 3

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The mayor is giving dinner

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to the officers’ wives

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His eldest son is learning how to fawn

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The barrack block is hushed and tense

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The soldiers drawing lots

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Who will be the hangman in the dawn?

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Verse 4

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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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His home is in the village close nearby

Verse 5

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He shivers at the thought of what

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He’sforced to do next day

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He wonders who it is, who has to die?

Verse 6

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And the full moon casts a cold light

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On the gloomy prison walls

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The papist walks his cell, he cannot sleep

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Verse 7

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He hears the waiting gallows creaking

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Just beyond that door

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He prays for he has no

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more tears to weep

Verse 8

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The day begins to break

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A muffled drums begins to sound

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A crowd begins to gather in the square

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The presence of the hangman

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in his terrifying mask

Verse 9

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Weighs heavy on the minds

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of all those there

The colonel reads the sentence

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Which the papist knows by heart

Verse 10

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He has failed to show allegi

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ance to the King

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His crime is thus with God himself

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And in His name he must hang

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The papist, head held high,

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says not a thing

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Verse 11

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The jailer binds his hands

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And puts his blindfold to his eyes

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He leads him through the

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door before the crowd

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The hangman sees his victim

Verse 12

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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

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His trembling hands be

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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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And he cries for all to hear

Verse 14

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Forgive me, God,

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we hang him in Thy name

Forgive me, God,

we hang him in Thy name

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Forgive me, God,

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we hang him in Thy name

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Oh, please forgive me, God,

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we hang him in Thy name

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Forgive me, God,

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we hang him in Thy name

Outro 1

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