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 and every one a blank
That's followed every fool and seen the rise 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 fortune to some that came along
That's sunk a dozen holes and not a speck in sight
Yet sees take a million from the claims to left and right
Now aren't like that enough to drive a man to booze
But Hard-Luck Smith was he knew the way to lose

Twas in the fall of nineteen four leap-year I've heard say
When Hard-Luck came to Hunker and took a hillside lay
And lo! as if to make for all the futile past
Late in the he struck it rich the real pay-streak at last
The riffles of his sluicing-box choked with speckled earth
And night and day he that lay for all that he was worth
And when in chill December's gloom his lucky lease
He found that he had a stake as big as he desired

One day while on the waywardness of fate
He felt the of lonely man to find a fitting mate
A petticoated pard to his solitary life
A woman with soft 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 there in letters was the magic name of Peg

You know these Yukon eggs of ours some pink some green blue
A dollar per assorted tints flavors too
The supercilious cheechako might designate them
But one acquires a taste for them and them by and by
Well Hard-Luck Henry this egg and held it to the light
And there was more faint pencilling sorely taxed his sight
At last he made it out and then the legend ran this
Will Klondike write to Peg Plumhollow 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 smiled through clouds of she cheered his weary way
At he yielded to the spell his course of love he set
Wisconsin his objective point his object

With every mile of sea and land his grew and grew
He practised all his pretty words and these I were few
At last one frosty evening with a chill down his spine
He found himself before her house the threshold of the
His courage flickered to a spark then glowed with sudden
He he heard a welcome word she came his goddess came
Oh she was fair as any flower and he spoke
I'm all the way from Klondike with a mighty 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 at him a space her cheeks grew rosy red
She gazed at him with tear-bright eyes tenderly she said
Yes lonely miner it is true my name is Peg
also true I longed 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 have mighty old
I waited long I and feared you should have come before
I've been a wedded woman now for eighteen months or
I'm sorry you've come so far you ain't the one that wins
But won't you a step inside I'll let you see the twins