Luyện nghe bài hát Black Cowboys

Raney William's playground was Haven's streets
Where he ran past melted and flower wreaths
Names and photos of the young black
death and blood consecrated these places

Raney's mother said stay at my side
For you are my blessing, you are my
It's your love here that keeps my alive
I want you to home from school and stay inside

Raney'd do his work and put his books
There was a channel showed a Western movie
And that brought him home books on the black cowboys of the range
The Seminole scouts that fought the tribes of the Plains

come and the days grew long
Raney had his mother's smile to depend on
the street of stray bullets he made his way
To the of her arms at the end of each day

Come the Fall, the flooded these homes
In Ezekiel's valley of dry
It fell hard and to the ground
It without a sound

And they took up with a man whose business was the
Whose was fixed in a face that was never off guard
In the pipes 'neath the kitchen sink his are kept
In the day, behind drawn curtains in the next bedroom he

And she got lost in the
The smile Raney depended on dusted
The arms held him were no more his own
He lay at night his pressed to her chest listening to the ghost in her bones

In the kitchen, Raney slipped his hand between the
From a brown bag pulled five hundred bills and stuck it in his coat side
Stood in the dark at his bed
Brushed her and kissed her eyes

In the twilight Raney to the station on streets of stone
Through and Ohio his train drifted on
Through the small towns of Indiana the big crept
As he lay his head on his seat and slept

He woke and the gave way to muddy fields of green
Corn and cotton and nothing in between
the rutted hills of Oklahoma the red sun slipped and was gone
The moon rose and stripped the earth to its