Break My Fall

Town folks gather round
 As they tighten the noose on my neck
 Preacher says "Son, is there anything you like to say?
 Loosen your tongue
 Son tell us all your last request"
 I whispered in his ear
 The last breath I held in my chest
 Hangman please let me down easy
 Jesus heel my beck and call
 Though I'm a sinner
 Lord please forgive me
 And let something soft break my fall
 They said I killed the daughter of a man
 And no one stood my bond
 And I although I loved her, I'd never wished her any harm
 They never found her body
 But they beat me to tell where she lay
 But I was not the one who had taken her
 Led her astray
 So hangman please let me down easy
 And Jesus heel my beck and call
 Though I'm a sinner
 Lord please forgive me
 But let something soft break my fall
 The crowd grew still as he
 Placed the bag over my head
 The rope was pulled tight, and just
 Moments until I'd be dead
 When I heard the voice of a girl
 Who screamed "I'm alive!"
 The sweetest sound to my ears on
 The day that I died
 Oh! Hangman
 Let me down easy
 And Jesus heed my beck and call
 And though I'm a sinner
 Lord please forgive me
 And let something soft break my fall
 Oh! Hangman
 Hangman
 Let me down easy
 And Jesus heed my beck and call
 Though I'm a sinner
 Lord please forgive me and
 Let something soft break my fall
 Break my fall
 Break my fall
 Break my fall
 Break my