Hangman

They guide this guiltless lad
To the gallows, make way
Raring to run, I must be mad

Bent down a desperate shape
By the gallows I pray
Head over heels is my escape

Running up the ridge, my blood rushing
Hangman on my heels, his pace crushing
Scale the mountainside, he's still trailing
Hangman take it home, you unfailing foe far down below

Exhausted by the hunt
Set to fail from the start
Stitch in my side onward I grunt

Still breathe my burning lungs
Still hammers my heart
Long may this lore live in their songs

Running up the ridge, my blood rushing
Hangman on my heels, his pace crushing
Scale the mountainside, he's still trailing
Hangman take it home, you unfailing foe far down below

Running up the ridge, my blood rushing
Hangman on my heels, his pace crushing
Scale the mountainside, he's still trailing
Hangman take it home, I'm hightailing

Hasting up the hill, my death brushing
Hangman on my heels, his pace crushing
Scale the mountainside, he's still trailing
Hangman take it home, you unfailing foe far down below