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 East Red
he was the bull around.

If you rode by night or the daylight
in the wintery or the sun,
You always see little East Texas Red
just a sportin' his gun.
And the got switched down the stems and mains,
and said
That the bull
on them shiney
was that East Texas Red.

It was on a cold and a windy
it was towards nine or ten,
A couple of boys on the of a job
they that blizzardy wind.
and cold they knocked on the doors
of the workin' around
For a of meat
and a or spud just a boil of stew around.

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

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

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

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

Red went to his and he hollered
"Please, don't pull 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.