Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

(Woddy Guthrie)

Down in the scrub oak
to the southeast Gulf
used to ride a brakeman,
a double tough.
He worked the of Kilgore,
and Longview twelve down,
And the all said
little Texas Red
he was the meanest around.

If you rode by or the broad daylight
in the wintery or the sun,
You would always see little Texas Red
a sportin' his smooth-runnin gun.
And the tale got switched down the and mains,
and everybody
That the bull
on them irons
was little East Texas Red.

It was on a cold and a morn'
it was towards nine or ten,
A couple of on the hunt of a job
they stood blizzardy wind.
Hungry and cold they knocked on the
of the workin' around
For a of meat
and a carrot or just a boil of stew around.

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

Red he laughed and he climbed the bank
and he on the side of a wheeler,
The boys a tanker to Seminole
then to Amarillo.
They caught them a job of oil-field
and followed a down.
It took them lots of
before that
had around.

on a cold and windy day
they them a Gulf-bound train.
They shivered and shook with the dough in clothes
to the scrub oak again,
their warm suits of clothes and overcoats
they walked a store.
paid that man
for some meat and
just a boil of stew more.

The ties they tracked that cinder dump
and they to the same old spot
Where East Texas Red a year ago
had dumped their stew pot.
Well, the smoke of their went higher and higher
and Red come the line.
With his tucked low in the wintery wind
he waved old nine.
He walked on down the jungle yard
and he to the same old spot
And there was the two men again
that same stew pot.

Red went to his and he hollered
"Please, don't pull your on me.
I did not get my straight."
But he did not get his say.
A gun out of an overcoat
and it played old one two,
And Red was dead the other two men
sat down to eat stew.