Luyện nghe bài hát Ballad Of Hard Luck Henry

Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful
That's staked out nigh hundred claims and every one a blank
That's followed every fool stampede and seen the and fall
Of camps where men got in chunks and he got none at all
That's prospected a bit of ground and sold it for a
To see it yield a fortune to fool that came along
That's sunk a dozen holes and not a speck in sight
Yet sees them take a million from the claims to left and
Now aren't things that enough to drive a man to booze
But Hard-Luck Smith was hoodoo-proof he knew the way to

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

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

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

That night he got to thinking of this unknown fair
It seemed so sort of an answer to his prayer
She flitted sweetly his dreams she haunted him by day
She through clouds of nicotine she cheered his weary way
At last he yielded to the his course of love he set
his objective point his object Margaret

With 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 threshold of the
His courage flickered to a spark then glowed sudden flame
He knocked he heard a welcome she came his goddess came
Oh she was fair as any and huskily he spoke
I'm all the way from Klondike with a mighty heavy
I'm for a lassie one whose Christian name is Peg
Who sought a miner and who wrote it on an egg

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