Luyện nghe bài hát Cooky and Lila

(D. Hickey)

He was a short order cook, and not too to look at
And he in his foot, for a medal in the war
He loved a girl named Lila, in a bar across the
And you ought to see him smilin' at her comin' the door

Lila always knew, she wasn't no ravin'
She traded in her virtue to a trucker at
But she to remember how he left her off in Denver
When she sees her Cooky smilin' as she opens up the

And he
"Hi Lila, how about a cup of
Take a load off, take your off, here's the sugar and the cream"
been to war and Lila's been to Denver
And both of them are of someone else's dream

pours the trucker's coffee, Lila serves the rigger's whiskey
And resists their to go ridin' for a while
'Cause at a diner the highway, on a shelf above the pastry
a cup reserved for Lila and the man who makes her smile

When he
"Hi Lila, how a cup of coffee?
Take a load off, your shoes off, here's the sugar and the cream"
'Cause been to war and Lila's been to Denver
And both of them are casualties of else's dream

Now as the nation along, like a semi down the highway
Casting lonely broken bodies in the grass along the
I've found a reason for believing in the future
Cooky and his Lila drinking coffee all alone

Oh yes
"Hi Lila, how about a cup of
Take a load off, take shoes off, here's the sugar and the cream"
'Cause Cooky's been to war and been to Denver
And both of them are casualties of else's dream

Cooky's been to war, Lord and Lila's to Denver
And of them are casualties of someone else's dream

(c)1975 Everyday Songs/Baron Publ.