Luyện nghe bài hát A Healthy Normal American Boy

From Bye Bye Birdie

(Reporters questions-spoken)
Reporter 1: How Conrad feel about going into the army?
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 and eager, strangely humble. Proud to be a plain G.I.
Rosie: He would gladly, face those bullets, for 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 heard he 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 near us, we're OH Conrad we love you.
Reporter 3 (spoken): the picture on you and that Hollywood star? Are you two engaged?
Rosie(spoken): Is he engaged? Is Conrad There's absolutely 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, healthy American boy.
Reporter 4 (spoken): why was her husband so mad?
(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 don't what they're saying)
Reporter 5 (spoken): Is it true you found Conrad in a reform
Rosie & Albert: That is a lie. A lie through and through. tell you where he
from here's the story and it's true.
Rosie: He was in Indo-China.
He was born in old Virginia
Rosie: Son of there.
Albert : On a acre farm.
Rosie: Very poor and very
From a line of wealthy planters.
Rosie: What a life to bear.
Albert: of genteel, southern charm!
Rosie: Then he drifted to Hong Kong
Albert: In by the river,
To a waterfront 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
Albert: that old plantation moon.
(while Rosie and Albert sing "America", chorus sings the 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.
Albert & Rosie (over chorus): Oh beautiful for spaceious skies for amber waves of grain. America, America, g-d his grace on thee.
All: For he's a fine abstanding patriotic, normal American boy.