Luyện nghe bài hát Ballad Of Hard Luck Henry

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

Twas in the fall of nineteen four leap-year heard them say
When Hard-Luck came to Hunker Creek and took a lay
And lo! as if to make amends for all the past
Late in the 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 lay for all that he was worth
And in chill December's gloom his lucky lease expired
He that he had made a stake as big as he desired

One day while on the waywardness of fate
He the ache of lonely man to find a fitting mate
A petticoated to cheer his solitary life
A woman with soft soothing a confidant a wife
And while he cooked his supper on his Yukon stove
He wished he had staked a claim in Love's rich treasure-trove
When suddenly he paused and aloft a Yukon egg
For there in letters was the magic name of Peg

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

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

every mile of sea and land his longing grew and grew
He all his pretty words and these I fear were few
At one frosty evening with a cold chill down his spine
He found himself before her the threshold of the shrine
His courage flickered to a spark glowed with sudden 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 Christian is Peg
Who sought a Klondike and who wrote it on an egg

The gazed at him a space her cheeks grew rosy red
She gazed at him with tear-bright 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 heart went out to someone in that land of night and
But oh I fear that Yukon egg must been mighty old
I waited long I hoped and you should have come before
I've been a wedded woman now for months or more
I'm sorry since come so far you ain't the one that wins
But won't you take a step I'll let you see the twins