Luyện nghe bài hát Black Canal

They'll always find a place for you in the cafes
No one into the streets these days
Except strangers and those me, looking for work
I noticed the when I got off the bus
And traced it to a canal that ran
Right through the heart of the
an open vein full of black rotten blood
A surface broken only by the bubbles of gas
Escaping the stagnating mess that lay on the bottom
Fuelled by the chemicals and effluent of the
was fed, in turn, by the barges and the ships
That followed that and created the waves across that
Surface to the dockside where unloaded their holds,
The swarms of clambering over them
I sat down in a cafe and I was my own
And minding my own
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 an ashen cloud from behind a long cigar
Son, you'll never need to smell the black

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

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

All the silks out of
And all the satins out of
All the for your noses
Will the stench at bay

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

And my world was spinnin', my was awash
With promises and his beer
And I looked up as he down
And snorted the in his buttonhole
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 black
The canal
The canal

(derek paterson)