Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

(Woddy Guthrie)

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

If you rode by night or the broad
in the wind or the sun,
You would see little East Texas Red
just a his smooth-runnin gun.
And the tale got down the stems and mains,
and everybody
That the meanest
on shiney irons
was that little Texas Red.

It was on a and a windy morn'
it was along nine or ten,
A of boys on the hunt of a job
they stood blizzardy wind.
and cold they knocked on the doors
of the workin' people
For a piece of
and a carrot or spud just a boil of around.

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

Well Red he laughed and he the bank
and he swung on the of a wheeler,
The caught a tanker to Seminole
then to Amarillo.
They caught them a job of work
and a pipeline down.
It took them of places
before that
had around.

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

The ties they down that cinder dump
and they to the same old spot
Where Texas Red just 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 through the yard
and he came to the same old
And there was the same two men
around same stew pot.

Red went to his and he hollered
"Please, don't 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 the other two men
sat to eat their stew.