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 claims and every one a blank
That's followed every fool 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 a fortune to some fool that came along
That's sunk a bed-rock holes and not a speck in sight
Yet sees them take a from the claims to left and right
Now aren't things like that enough to a man to booze
But Smith was hoodoo-proof he knew the way to lose

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

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 with soothing ways a confidant a wife
And while he his supper on his little Yukon stove
He wished that he had staked a claim in rich treasure-trove
When suddenly he and held aloft a Yukon egg
For there in pencilled letters was the name of Peg

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

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

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

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