Songtexte

Bentley said to Craig, "Let him have it Chris"

They still don't know today just what he meant by this

Craig fired the pistol, but was too young to swing

So the police took Bentley and the very next thing

Let him dangle

Bentley had surrendered, he was under arrest

When he gave Chris Craig that fatal request

Craig shot Sidney Miles, he took Bentley's word

The prosecution claimed as they charged them with murder

Let him dangle

They say, Derek Bentley was easily led

Well, what's that to the woman that Sidney Miles wed

Though guilty was the verdict and Craig had shot him dead

The gallows were for Bentley and still she never said

Let him dangle

Well, it's hard to imagine it's the times you have changed

When there's a murder in the kitchen that is brutal and strange

If killing anybody is a terrible crime

Why does this bloodthirsty chorus come 'round from time to time

Let him dangle

Not many people thought that Bentley would hang

But the word never came, the phone never rang

Outside Wandsworth Prison there was horror and hate

As the hangman shook Bentley's hand to calculate his weight

Let him dangle

Well, it's hard to imagine it's the times you have changed

When there's a murder in the kitchen that is brutal and strange

If killing anybody is a terrible crime

Why does this bloodthirsty chorus come 'round from time to time

Let him dangle

From a welfare state to society murder

Bring "Back the noose" is always heard

Whenever those swine are under attack

But it won't make you even

It won't bring him back

Let him dangle

(String him up)

Autor(en): D.p.a. Macmanus

Album Original Album Series

Veröffentlichungsdatum

11-06-2012

1 Stalin Malone
2 Pony St.
3 Interlude: Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 2 - Instrumental
4 ...This Town...
5 Let Him Dangle
6 Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
7 Veronica
8 God's Comic
9 Chewing Gum
10 Tramp The Dirt Down
11 Satellite
12 Pads, Paws And Claws
13 Baby Plays Around
14 Miss Macbeth
15 Any King’s Shilling
16 Coal-Train Robberies
17 Last Boat Leaving
18 The Other Side Of Summer
19 Hurry Down Doomsday [The Bugs Are Taking Over]
20 How To Be Dumb
21 All Grown Up
22 Invasion Hit Parade
23 Harpies Bizarre
24 After The Fall
25 Georgie And Her Rival
26 So Like Candy
27 Playboy To A Man
28 Sweet Pear
29 Broken
30 Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4
31 Kinder Murder
32 13 Steps Lead Down
33 This Is Hell
34 Clown Strike
35 You Tripped At Every Step
36 Still Too Soon To Know
37 20% Amnesia
38 Sulky Girl
39 London's Brilliant Parade
40 My Science Fiction Twin
41 Rocking Horse Road
42 Just About Glad
43 All The Rage
44 Favourite Hour
45 Strange
46 Hidden Charms
47 Remove This Doubt
48 I Threw It All Away
49 Leave My Kitten Alone
50 Everybody's Crying Mercy
51 I've Been Wrong Before
52 Bama Lama Bama Loo
53 Must You Throw Dirt In My Face
54 Pouring Water On A Drowning Man
55 The Very Thought Of You
56 Payday
57 Please Stay
58 Running Out Of Fools
59 Days
60 The Other End of the Telescope
61 Little Atoms
62 All This Useless Beauty
63 Complicated Shadows
64 Why Can’t a Man Stand Alone?
65 Distorted Angel
66 Shallow Grave
67 Poor Fractured Atlas
68 Starting to Come to Me
69 You Bowed Down
70 It’s Time
71 I Want to Vanish

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