The Hangman and the Papist chords by
The Strawbs
The Strawbs

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Key: G minor
Intro 1
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Am
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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
Verse 2
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Like 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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D
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His eldest son is learning how to fawn
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The barrack block is
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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’s forced 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,
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he cannot sleep
Verse 7
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He hears the waiting gal lows 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 al
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legiance 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
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
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the 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 eyes 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
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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
Oh, please forgive me, God, we hang him in
Thy name
Forgive me, God, we hang him in Thy name

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