The Hanged Ballad

Lyrics

Human brothers that alive still you are Don't have for us frozen heart That if mercy for us we wretched you have God will grant you larger his favour Hanging five, six here you can see us Our flesh is once time too fatten And by the time is devoured and ruined Our bones turn in ashes and dust No one laughed for the unwell that ravages us But now pray God us to be absolved! If we call you we don't have to disdain 'though we've been killed in justice But still you know about good sense Many are lacking in this world As we're dead for us you can get From the son of celestial Virgin Who dried up the grace that doesn't remain And that saves us from the horrible flash! Dead we are, no one molests us But now pray God us to be absolved! The shower has washed and cleaned us And now the sun turns us black and dry Magpies and ravens our eyes have dug up And birds and eyelashes snatched with the beaks We haven't peace for just a moment Here and there as the mind changes Without pauses as his pleasure we turn Bored more by bird than by thimbles Go with us you've never been equal But now pray God us to be absolved! Oh God who upon all you rule! Don't let us feel the Hellish hot! 'Cause debts here don't have to be absolved! Men here don't show mercy or irony But now pray God us to be absolved!