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 one a blank
That's followed every fool stampede and seen the and fall
Of camps where men got in chunks and he got none at all
That's prospected a bit of and sold 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 things like that 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 leap-year I've heard them say
Hard-Luck came to Hunker Creek and took a hillside 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 were choked with speckled earth
And night and day he worked that lay for all he was worth
And when in chill December's gloom his lucky expired
He found he had made a stake as big as he desired

One day while meditating on the waywardness of
He felt the ache of lonely man to find a mate
A petticoated pard to cheer his solitary
A woman with soothing ways a confidant a wife
And while he cooked his supper on his little Yukon
He wished that he had staked a claim in Love's treasure-trove
When suddenly he paused and held a Yukon egg
For in pencilled letters was the magic name of Peg

You know these Yukon eggs of 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 them and them by and by
Hard-Luck Henry took this egg and held it to the light
And there was more pencilling that sorely taxed his sight
At he made it out and then the legend ran like this
Will Klondike miner write to Peg Squashville Wis

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

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

The lassie gazed at him a space her cheeks rosy red
She gazed at him with tear-bright eyes tenderly she said
Yes lonely Klondike it is true my name 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 that Yukon egg must have been mighty old
I long I hoped and feared you should have come before
I've been a wedded woman now for eighteen months or
I'm sorry since you've come so far you the one that wins
But won't you take a step inside I'll let you see the