Luyện nghe bài hát Ballad Of Hard Luck Henry

Now wouldn't you expect to a man an awful crank
staked out nigh three hundred claims and every one a blank
That's every 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 sold it for a
To see it yield a fortune to some fool came along
That's sunk a dozen bed-rock holes and not a speck in
Yet sees them take a million from the to left and right
Now aren't like that enough to drive 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 amends for all the futile
Late in the year he it rich the real pay-streak at last
The riffles of his sluicing-box were choked with speckled
And night and day he worked lay for all that he was worth
And in chill December's gloom his lucky lease expired
He found that he had made a as big as he desired

One day meditating on the waywardness of fate
He felt the ache of lonely man to find a mate
A petticoated pard to his solitary life
A woman with soothing ways a confidant a wife
And while he cooked his supper on his Yukon stove
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 eggs of ours pink some green some blue
A dollar per assorted tints flavors too
The supercilious cheechako might designate high
But one acquires a taste for them and them by and by
Well Hard-Luck Henry took this egg and held it to the
And there was more faint pencilling that sorely his sight
At last he it out and then the legend ran like this
Will Klondike miner write to Peg Squashville Wis

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

With mile of sea and land his longing grew and grew
He practised all his words and these I fear were few
At last one evening with 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 huskily he
I'm all the way from Klondike with a heavy poke
I'm looking for a lassie one whose name is Peg
Who sought a Klondike and who wrote it on an egg

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