Luyện nghe bài hát A Healthy Normal American Boy

From Bye Bye Birdie

(Reporters questions-spoken)
Reporter 1: How does Conrad feel about going the army?
Albert: How does he feel? You ask how he feels. He's too shy to tell you so I'll tell you how he feels. He feels brave and eager, strangely humble. Proud to be a plain G.I.
Rosie: He would gladly, those bullets, for he's not afraid to die.
Girls: For he's a abstanding patriotic, healthy normal American boy.
Albert (spoken): And why he volunteered.
Reporter 2 (spoken): Volunteered? I he appealed 3 times!
(spoken):Sing!
Girls: We love you Conrad, oh yes we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true. When you're not us, we're blue/ OH Conrad we love you.
Reporter 3 (spoken): What's the on you and that Hollywood star? Are you two engaged?
Rosie(spoken): Is he engaged? Is Conrad engaged? There's nothing to the rumor he's engaged.
Albert: She's a real pal., like a sister, but it mean a thing. And that 18 karat diamond, it was just a friendship ring.
Girls: For he's a fine abstanding patriotic, normal American boy.
Reporter 4 (spoken): Then why was her husband so
(spoken): Sing!
Girls: We love you Conrad, oh yes we do, we you Conrad, and we'll be true.
Albert (spoken): Why, I'll never Conrad's first word's when he heard he'd been accepted into the armed forces. 'Gee Mr. Peterson' he cried eagerly, 'Do you think they'll assign me to one of those frontline trenches (army talk here I don't know what they're saying)
Reporter 5 (spoken): Is it true you found in a reform school?
Rosie & Albert: That is a lie. A lie and through. I'll tell you where he
came from the story and it's true.
Rosie: He was in Indo-China.
Albert: He was born in old
Son of missionaries there.
Albert : On a thousand farm.
Rosie: Very poor and hungry
Albert: From a line of planters.
What a awful life to bear.
Albert: of genteel, southern charm!
Then he drifted down to Hong Kong
Albert: In by the river,
Rosie: To a saloon.
ALbert: In the moonlight he croon.
Rosie: is where we heard him singing.
Albert: That's where Conrad singing.
'neath that diry Hong Kong moon
Albert: that old plantation moon.
(while Rosie and Albert sing "America", sings the conrad theme song-it's all
one big mess)
ch: We love you COnrad, oh yes we do, we love you Conrad, and be true. When you're not near us, we're blue. Oh Conrad we love you.
Albert & (over chorus): Oh beautiful for spaceious skies for amber waves of grain. America, America, g-d shed his grace on thee.
All: For he's a fine abstanding patriotic, healthy American boy.