Luyện nghe bài hát A Healthy Normal American Boy

From Bye Bye Birdie

(Reporters questions-spoken)
Reporter 1: How does Conrad feel about going into the
Albert: How does he feel? You ask how he feels. He's much too shy to tell you so I'll tell you how he feels. He feels brave and eager, strangely humble. to be a plain G.I.
Rosie: He would gladly, face those bullets, for not afraid to die.
Girls: For he's a fine abstanding patriotic, normal American boy.
Albert (spoken): And why he volunteered.
2 (spoken): Volunteered? I heard he appealed 3 times!
(spoken):Sing!
Girls: We love you Conrad, oh yes we do, we you Conrad, and we'll be true. When you're not near us, we're blue/ OH Conrad we love you.
Reporter 3 (spoken): What's the picture on you and Hollywood star? Are you two engaged?
Rosie(spoken): Is he engaged? Is Conrad engaged? There's absolutely to the rumor he's engaged.
Albert: She's a pal., like a sister, but it doens't 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 you Conrad, oh yes we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true.
Albert (spoken): Why, I'll never forget 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 know what they're saying)
Reporter 5 (spoken): Is it true you found Conrad in a reform
Rosie & That is a lie. A lie through and through. I'll tell you where he
came from here's the and it's true.
Rosie: He was in Indo-China.
Albert: He was born in old
Rosie: Son of there.
Albert : On a thousand farm.
Rosie: Very poor and very
Albert: From a of wealthy planters.
Rosie: a awful life to bear.
Albert: of genteel, southern charm!
Rosie: Then he drifted down to Kong
In evening by the river,
Rosie: To a saloon.
ALbert: In the moonlight he croon.
That is where we heard him singing.
Albert: That's Conrad started singing.
Rosie: 'neath diry Hong Kong moon
'neath that old plantation moon.
(while and Albert sing "America", chorus sings the conrad theme song-it's all
one big mess)
ch: We you COnrad, oh yes we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true. When you're not near us, we're blue. Oh Conrad we love you.
& Rosie (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 normal boy.