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    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    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    Let him dangle       Well it's hard to imagine it's the times that    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       >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    Let him dangle (String him up)