Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

(Woddy Guthrie)

Down in the scrub oak
to the southeast Texas
There to ride a brakeman,
a brakeman tough.
He the town of Kilgore,
and Longview miles down,
And the all said
little East 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
just a sportin' his gun.
And the tale got down the stems and mains,
and said
That the meanest
on them shiney
was that little East Red.

It was on a cold and a morn'
it was along towards 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 of stew around.

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

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

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

The ties they tracked down that dump
and come 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 down the line.
With his head low in the wintery wind
he waved old nine.
He walked on down the jungle yard
and he to the same old spot
And was the same two men again
around same stew pot.

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