Luyện nghe bài hát Ballad Of Hard Luck Henry

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

Twas in the fall of nineteen four leap-year I've them say
When Hard-Luck 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 rich the real pay-streak at
The riffles of his sluicing-box were with speckled earth
And and day he worked that lay for all that he was worth
And when in chill gloom his lucky lease expired
He found that he had made a stake as big as he

One day while on the waywardness of fate
He felt the ache of lonely man to find a fitting
A petticoated to cheer his solitary life
A woman with soft soothing 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
suddenly he paused and held aloft a Yukon egg
For there in pencilled was the magic name of Peg

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

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

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

The lassie gazed at him a her cheeks grew rosy red
She gazed at him with tear-bright eyes tenderly she said
Yes Klondike miner it is true my name is Peg
It's also I longed for you and wrote it on an egg
My heart went out to someone in that of night and cold
But oh I fear that Yukon egg must have been 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 ain't the one wins
But won't you take a step inside let you see the twins