Luyện nghe bài hát Black Canal

They'll always find a for you in the sidewalk cafes
No one ventures into the these days
strangers and those like me, looking for work
I the smell when I got off the bus
And it down to a canal that ran
through the heart of the city
Like an open vein full of black rotten
A mirror surface only by the bubbles of gas
Escaping from the stagnating mess lay on the bottom
Fuelled by the chemicals and of the city
Which was fed, in turn, by the barges and the
That that line and created the waves across that
Surface to the dockside where unloaded their holds,
The swarms of people over them
I sat down in a cafe and I was my own
And my own business
And a voice spoke in my as if it recognized
That I was questioning the source of the

Have another beer boy, take it with a of snuff
And my eyes were bedazzled, by the jewels in his cuff
And a voice rolled out from an ashen from behind a long cigar
Son, you'll never to smell the black canal

It was as if he'd read my mind, as if he it
And, as the afternoon was wasted, I aware
I was becoming wrapped up in his
I became of the smell from the bouquet in his buttonhole

It was taking me away from the
And away my questions
I was aware the perfumes were all around us
And he sold me the city, well at least he to with all his stories

All the silks out of
And all the satins out of
All the powders for your
Will keep the at bay

Have another beer boy, take it a pinch of snuff
Your will be bedazzled, by the jewels in my scented cuff
And a rolled out from an ashen cloud from behind a long cigar
Son, you'll never need to smell this black

And my was spinnin', my head was awash
With this promises and his
And I looked up as he reached
And snorted the flower in his
He smiled and his lied
I was staring at a suit no soul

No matter how you wash
How you and bleach and boil
You'll never get rid of the smell of the black
Of the canal
Black
The canal
The black
The black

(derek paterson)