The Gallows Gate

Well there's a litany of sins I don't know where to begin dear its frightening
Here in the grips of the law every fault every flaw on the stand
For the larceny is grand and the law of the land frowns upon me
There's a trail of deceit laid there at your feet but I have no leg to stand

So here I am shackled bound for the scaffold I must face the judgment at hand
Damn all the vipers and the unpaid pipers for no one understands
For I've broken my vows I've burned down the house
I'm resigned to my fate for me it's much too late
Darling our love has a date at the Gallows Gate

As the hangman appears and the hour draws near my mind wanders
Was our love always cursed and bound for the hearse by my crimes
For I've been at large I'm guilty as charged
You can go ahead and throw away the key
I've perjured and libeled though I swore on the bible
I've burned every bridge into the sea

I'll mount no defenses please spare the expenses
And spare the poor jury their time
I'm here to confess to the whole bloody mess
You don't know the half of my crimes
Forgive me my dear it's worse than you fear
I've resigned to my fate for me it's much too late
Darling our love has a date at the Gallows Gate
Darling please don't be late

As I'm lead down the hall I fondly recall the greatest of all of my crimes
How I buried the hatchet mad as a bat's shit
in the back of a clergyman's spine
For I'm fatally flawed rejected by God
I'm resigned to my fate for me it's much too late
Darling our love has a date at the Gallows Gate
Darling please don't be late
At the Gallows Gate
The Gallows Gate
At the Gallows Gate
The Gallows Gate
At the Gallows Gate
The Gallows Gate
At the Gallows Gate