Luyện nghe bài hát Ballad Of Hard Luck Henry

Now wouldn't you expect to 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 camps 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 them take a million from the claims to left and right
Now aren't things like 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 Hard-Luck came to Creek and took a hillside lay
And lo! as if to make amends for all the past
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 when in chill December's gloom his lucky lease
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 man to find a fitting mate
A petticoated pard to his solitary life
A woman soft soothing ways a confidant a wife
And he cooked his supper on his little Yukon 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 ours some pink green some blue
A per assorted tints assorted flavors too
The supercilious cheechako might designate them
But one acquires a taste for them and them by and by
Hard-Luck Henry took this 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 like
Will Klondike miner to Peg Plumhollow Squashville Wis

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

With every mile of sea and land his longing and grew
He practised all his words and these I fear were few
At last one frosty evening a cold chill down his spine
He found himself before her house the of the shrine
His courage 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 and huskily he spoke
I'm all the way from Klondike a mighty heavy poke
I'm looking for a lassie one whose name is Peg
Who a Klondike miner and who wrote it on an egg

The lassie gazed at him a her cheeks grew rosy red
She at him with tear-bright eyes then 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 went out to someone in that land of night and cold
But oh I that Yukon egg must have been mighty old
I waited long I hoped and feared you should have come
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