00:28A CIDADE NO BRASIL
00:30A CIDADE NO BRASIL
01:00A CIDADE NO BRASIL
01:08A FRAME AS TALL OR LITTLE MORE
01:12THAN THE CAPPING SILL OF THE COURTHOUSE DOOR
01:20And we wondered, whenever we had the time, who the criminal?
01:26What the crime the hangman judged, with a yellow twist of knotted hemp in his busy fist?
01:32And innocent though we were, with dread we passed those eyes of buckshot lead
01:40Till one cried, hangman, who is he for whom you raised the gallows tree?
01:46Then a twinkle grew in the buckshot eye, and he gave us a riddle instead of reply
01:53He who serves me best, said he, shall earn the rope on the gallows tree
02:04And he stepped down
02:06And laid his hand on a man who came from another land
02:12And we breathed again
02:13For another's grief at the hangman's hand
02:16Was our relief
02:22And the gallows frame on the courthouse lawn
02:25By tomorrow's sun would be struck and gone
02:28So we gave him way
02:37And spoke out of respect for his hangman's cloak
02:44The next day's sun looked mildly down on roof and street
02:49In our quiet town
02:51And stark and black in the morning air
02:55The gallows tree on the courthouse square
02:59And the hangman stood at his usual stand
03:02With a yellow hemp in his busy hand
03:05With his buckshot eye
03:06And his jaw like a pike
03:08And his air so knowing and businesslike
03:13And we cried
03:15Hangman, have you not done yesterday with the alien one?
03:21Then we fell silent
03:22And stood amazed
03:24Oh, not for him was the gallows raised
03:27He laughed a laugh as he looked at us
03:31Did you think I'd gone to all this fuss to hang one man?
03:35That's the thing I'd do to stretch the rope when the rope is new
03:41Above our silence a voice cried
03:43Shame!
03:45And into our midst
03:46The hangman came to that man's place
03:52Do you hold, said he, with him that was meat for the gallows tree?
03:57And he laid his hand on that one's arm
04:01And we shrank back in quick alarm
04:04And we gave him way
04:06And no one spoke
04:09Out of the fear of his hangman's cloak
04:14That night
04:15We saw with dread surprise
04:17The hangman's scaffold had grown in size
04:23Fed by the blood beneath the shoot
04:25But the gallows tree had taken root
04:31Now as wide
04:34Or a little more
04:35Than the steps that led to the courthouse door
04:39As tall as the writing
04:41Or nearly as tall
04:43Halfway up on the courthouse wall
04:58The third he took
04:59We had all heard tell
05:02Was a usurer
05:03And infidel
05:08And what
05:09Said the hangman
05:11Have you to do with the gallows bound?
05:15And he a Jew
05:18And we cried out
05:20Is this one he who has served you well and faithfully?
05:25The hangman smiled
05:27It's a clever scheme to try the strength of the gallows beam
05:33The fourth man's dark, accusing song
05:36Had scratched our comfort hard
05:38And long
05:41And what concern
05:43He gave us back
05:44Have you for the doomed
05:46The doomed and black
05:49The fifth
05:51The sixth
05:53And we cried again
05:55Hangman
05:56Hangman
05:57Is this the man?
05:58It's a trick
05:59He said
06:00That we hangman know
06:02For easing the trap
06:03When the trap springs slow
06:08And so we ceased
06:10And asked no more
06:12As the hangman tallied his bloody score
06:16And sun by sun
06:19And night by night
06:21The gallows grew to monstrous height
06:25The wings of the scaffold
06:26Opened wide
06:28Till they covered the square
06:30From side to side
06:31And the monster crossbeam
06:34Looking down
06:35Cast its shadow
06:36Across the town
06:59Then through the town
07:01The hangman came
07:02And called in the empty streets
07:07My name
07:09And I looked at the gallows
07:10Soaring tall
07:11And thought
07:13There's no one left at all
07:15For hanging
07:16And so he called to me
07:18To help pull down the gallows tree
07:20And I went out
07:21With bright good hope
07:22To the hangman's tree
07:24And the hangman's rope
07:29He smiled at me
07:31As I came down
07:31To the courthouse square
07:34Through the silent town
07:37And supple
07:38And stretched
07:39In his busy hand
07:41Was the yellow twist
07:42Of the hempen strand
07:43And he whistled his tune
07:45As he tried the trap
07:47And it sprang down
07:49With a ready snap
07:51And then
07:52With a smile
07:53Of awful command
07:55And he laid his hand
07:58Upon my hand
08:00You tricked me hangman
08:02I shouted then
08:05That your scaffold
08:06Was built for other men
08:07And I no henchman
08:09Of yours
08:09I cried
08:10You lied to me hangman
08:12Fowly lied
08:15Then a twinkle
08:16Grew in the buckshot eye
08:19Lied to you
08:20Tricked you
08:21He said
08:22Not I
08:23For I answered straight
08:25I told you true
08:27The scaffold
08:29Was raised
08:30For none but you
08:31For who has served
08:34More faithfully than you
08:35With your coward's hope
08:38Said he
08:40And where are the others
08:42That might have stood
08:43Side by your side
08:46Than the common good
08:50Dead
08:50I answered
08:53And amiably
08:55Murdered
08:56The hangman
08:58Corrected me
09:01First the alien
09:02Then the Jew
09:03I did no more
09:05Than you let me do
09:11Beneath the beam
09:12That blocked the sky
09:14None had stood
09:15So alone
09:16As I
09:18And the hangman
09:20Strapped me
09:22And no voice
09:24There cried
09:25Stay
09:26For me
09:29In the empty square
09:37Livered
09:38I
09:39That Г Dumbo
09:41There
09:45Are you
09:47In the empty square
09:47Can
09:47I
09:47I
09:47I
09:47I
09:49I
09:50I
10:00I
10:01I
10:01I
10:14Tchau, tchau.
10:42Tchau.
11:01Tchau.
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