Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

(Woddy Guthrie)

Down in the oak country
to the southeast Gulf
There used to a brakeman,
a brakeman tough.
He the town of Kilgore,
and Longview twelve down,
And the travellers all
little Texas Red
he was the bull around.

If you by night or the broad daylight
in the wind or the sun,
You would always see little East Red
a sportin' his smooth-runnin gun.
And the got switched down the stems and mains,
and said
That the bull
on shiney irons
was that little Texas Red.

It was on a and a windy morn'
it was along towards or ten,
A couple of on the hunt of a job
they stood that wind.
Hungry and they knocked on the doors
of the people around
For a piece of
and a carrot or spud just a of stew around.

East Texas Red come down the
and he swung off old number two.
He kicked bucket over a bush
and he out all of their stew.
The travellers said, "Little Texas Red,
you better get your business
Cause gonna ride
your little black train just one from today."

Well Red he laughed and he the bank
and he on the side of a wheeler,
The boys a tanker to Seminole
then to Amarillo.
caught them a job of oil-field work
and a pipeline down.
It took them of places
that year
had around.

Then on a cold and day
they caught a Gulf-bound train.
They shivered and shook the dough in their clothes
to the oak flats again,
With warm suits of clothes and overcoats
walked into a store.
They that man
for some and stuff
a boil of stew once more.

The ties they down that cinder dump
and they come to the same old
Where East Texas Red just a ago
had dumped last stew pot.
Well, the smoke of fire went higher and higher
and Red down the line.
With his head tucked low in the wind
he waved old nine.
He walked on down through the jungle
and he came to the same old
And was the same two men again
around that stew pot.

Red went to his kness and he
"Please, pull your trigger on me.
I did not get my straight."
But he did not get his say.
A gun wheeled out of an
and it that old one two,
And Red was dead when the two men
sat to eat their stew.