Luyện nghe bài hát Ballad Of Hard Luck Henry

Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful
staked out nigh three hundred claims and every one a blank
That's followed every fool stampede and seen the and fall
Of where men got gold in chunks 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
That's sunk a dozen bed-rock and not a speck in sight
Yet them take a million from the claims to left and right
Now aren't things like that enough to a man to booze
But Hard-Luck was hoodoo-proof he knew the way to lose

Twas in the fall of nineteen leap-year I've heard them say
When came to Hunker 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 were choked with speckled earth
And night and day he worked lay for all that he was worth
And when in chill December's his lucky lease expired
He that he had made 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 petticoated pard to cheer his life
A woman soft soothing ways a confidant a wife
And while he cooked his supper on his little stove
He wished that he had staked a claim in rich treasure-trove
When suddenly he paused and held aloft a egg
For there in letters was the magic name of Peg

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

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

With mile of sea and land his longing grew and grew
He all his pretty words and these I fear were few
At last one frosty evening with a cold chill down his
He himself before her house the threshold of the shrine
His courage flickered to a spark then glowed with flame
He knocked he heard a word she came his goddess came
Oh she was as any flower and huskily he spoke
I'm all the way from Klondike with a mighty heavy
I'm looking for a one whose Christian name is Peg
Who a Klondike 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
It's also true I for you and wrote it on an egg
My went out to someone in that land of night and cold
But oh I fear that Yukon egg must have mighty old
I waited long I and feared you should have come before
I've been a wedded woman now for eighteen 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