Luyện nghe bài hát Ballad Of Hard Luck Henry

Now you expect to find a man an awful crank
That's staked out nigh three hundred claims and every one a
That's followed fool stampede and seen the rise and fall
Of camps where men got gold in and he got none at all
That's prospected a bit of ground and it for a song
To see it yield a fortune to some fool came along
sunk a dozen bed-rock holes and not a speck in sight
Yet sees them a million from the claims to left and right
Now aren't like that enough to drive a man to booze
But Smith was hoodoo-proof he knew the way to lose

Twas in the fall of four leap-year I've heard them say
When Hard-Luck came to Creek and took a hillside lay
And lo! as if to make for all the futile past
Late in the year he struck it the real pay-streak at last
The riffles of his sluicing-box were choked speckled earth
And night and day he worked lay for all that he was worth
And when in chill December's gloom his lucky expired
He found that he had a stake as big as he desired

One day meditating on the waywardness of fate
He the ache of lonely man to find a fitting mate
A pard to cheer his solitary life
A woman soft soothing ways a confidant a wife
And while he cooked his supper on his little Yukon
He wished that he had staked a claim in rich treasure-trove
When suddenly he paused and held a Yukon egg
For there in pencilled letters was the magic of Peg

You know these Yukon eggs of ours pink some green some blue
A dollar per tints assorted flavors too
The cheechako might designate them high
But one a taste for them and likes them by and by
Well Henry took this egg and held it to the light
And there was more faint that sorely taxed his sight
At last he it out and then the legend ran like this
Will Klondike miner write to Peg Plumhollow Wis

That night he got to thinking of far-off unknown fair
It seemed so sort of opportune an to his prayer
She sweetly through his dreams she haunted him by day
She smiled through of nicotine she cheered his weary way
At last he yielded to the spell his course of he set
Wisconsin his objective his object Margaret

every mile of sea and land his longing grew and grew
He practised all his pretty words and these I were few
At last one evening with a cold chill down his spine
He found himself before her house the of the shrine
His courage flickered to a spark then glowed with sudden
He knocked he heard a welcome word she came his goddess
Oh she was fair as any and huskily he spoke
I'm all the way from with a mighty heavy poke
I'm looking for a lassie one whose Christian is Peg
Who a Klondike miner and who wrote it on an egg

The lassie at him a space her cheeks grew rosy red
She gazed at him with tear-bright eyes tenderly she said
Yes lonely Klondike miner it is my name is Peg
It's also true I longed for you and it on an egg
My heart out to someone in that land of night and cold
But oh I fear that Yukon egg have been mighty old
I waited long I hoped and feared you should have before
I've been a wedded now for eighteen months or more
I'm sorry since come so far you ain't the one that wins
But won't you a step inside I'll let you see the twins