Tablature hangman - Roy Harper

          



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  From: phillip@hgu.mrc.ac.uk

  Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 19:57:14 BST

  

  

  	Hangman. By Roy Harper

  

  	Transcription by Phil Lord

  	phillip@hgu.mrc.ac.uk

  

  	Roy more or less plays the chords straight on this song. I tend 

  to play them with little riffs in between on the grounds that I dont 

  have Jimmy Page playing over the top.

  

  	

  	Amin

  	Last night I wasnt sleeping

  	D               Amin

  	I knew it was my last,

  	Amin 

  	I’d just been lying thinking,

  	D               Amin

  	reliving all my past,

  	my familiy and friends have left,

  	my children are all lost

  	F

  	and now Im standing in the death cell

  	E

  	as the times of sands fall fast

  	

  	Amin

  	my pour heart it is thumping 

  	D                 Amin

  	my head is filled to flood

  	to feel the rope around my neck

  	and know its there for good

  	I know that I am innocent

  	but no ones understood

  	and now Im standing on the gallows

  	to be murdered in cold blood

  

  

  	Chorus:

  	Amin     G      F    E

  	We are creatures of darkness,

  	killers of time

  	creatures of darkness

  	bodies in lime

  

  	Oh hangman, oh hangman

  	how sleepless is your bed

  	I cant believe my own ears

  	my heart is full of lead

  	that you’d apply and get the job,

  	of pulling off my head

  	and leave me kicking in the darkness

  	covering the walls with blood

  

  	Oh hangman, oh hangman

  	your working in the shade

  	oh creatures of the jungle, 

  	whose message is displayed

  	in graphic tones of blood revenge

  	all down the civil blade

  	and your the creppy little monkey

  	who murders to be paid

  

  	In about six minutes time

  	Ill be thrown into the lime

  	by the screws who dug my grave

  	and never felt ashamed

  	who threw me in still breathing

  	and covered me in slime

  	and put me on a map in the governers office

  	a number with no name

  

  	We are creatures of darkness....

  

  	and true as I stand here 

  	Id wished to be untied.

  	the repose lies clean at your throat

  	that my death might somehow be justified

  	theres no unconsecrated ground

  	in my heart or in my mind

  	I lived and died in a world full of snakes

  	and Im buried in a vicious lie

  

  	We are creatures of darkness

  

  

  	Thats it....

  

  	The chords are played mostly open with E shape barre chords for 

  the chorus, although you can play them open if you like. 

  

  	I havent worked out the little riff at the beginning of the 

  song, but its just a Amin thing. I seem to remember seeing him play 

  it at the 7th position, but Im sure theres other ways of doing it.

  

  

  	Have fun

  

  

  	Phil Lord

  	phillip@hgu.mrc.ac.uk

  	http://glengoyne.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/~phillip

   


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