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 stampede and seen the rise and
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 to some fool that came along
That's sunk a dozen bed-rock holes and not a in sight
Yet sees them take a million the claims to left and right
Now aren't things like that enough to a man to booze
But Hard-Luck Smith was hoodoo-proof he knew the way to

Twas in the fall of nineteen four I've heard them say
When Hard-Luck came to Creek and took a hillside lay
And lo! as if to make for all the futile past
in the year he struck it rich the real pay-streak at last
The riffles of his sluicing-box were choked speckled earth
And night and day he worked that lay for all 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 meditating on the of fate
He felt the ache of lonely man to find a mate
A petticoated pard to cheer his life
A woman with soft soothing a confidant a wife
And he cooked his supper on his little Yukon stove
He that he had staked a claim in Love's rich treasure-trove
When 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 some some green some blue
A dollar per assorted tints assorted too
The supercilious cheechako might designate them
But one acquires a for them and likes them by and by
Well Hard-Luck Henry took this egg and held it to the
And there was more faint pencilling sorely taxed his sight
At last he made it out and then the legend ran like
Will Klondike miner write to Peg Squashville Wis

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

With every mile of sea and his longing grew and grew
He all his pretty words and these I fear were few
At last one frosty with a cold chill down his spine
He found himself before her house the of the shrine
His flickered to a spark then glowed with sudden flame
He he heard a welcome word she came his goddess came
Oh she was fair as any flower and huskily he
I'm all the way Klondike with a mighty heavy poke
I'm for a lassie one whose 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 then 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 someone in land of night and cold
But oh I fear that Yukon egg must have been old
I waited long I hoped and you should have come before
I've a wedded woman 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