Luyện nghe bài hát Black Canal

They'll find a place for you in the sidewalk cafes
No one ventures into the streets days
Except and those like me, looking for work
I noticed the when I got off the bus
And traced it down to a canal ran
Right through the of the city
Like an open vein full of rotten blood
A mirror surface broken by the bubbles of gas
Escaping from the stagnating that lay on the bottom
Fuelled by the chemicals and of the city
was fed, in turn, by the barges and the ships
That followed that line and the waves across that
Surface to the dockside where they their holds,
The swarms of clambering over them
I sat in a cafe and I was holding my own
And my own business
And a spoke in my ears as if it recognized
That I was questioning the source of the

Have another beer boy, take it a pinch of snuff
And my were bedazzled, by the jewels in his silken cuff
And a rolled out from an ashen cloud from behind a long cigar
Son, never need to smell the black canal

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

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

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

Have another beer boy, it with a pinch of snuff
Your will be bedazzled, by the jewels in my scented cuff
And a voice rolled out from an ashen cloud from behind a long
Son, you'll need to smell this black canal

And my was spinnin', my head was awash
With this and his beer
And I up as he reached down
And the flower in his buttonhole
He smiled and his eyes
I was at a suit with no soul

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

(derek paterson)