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