Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

(Woddy Guthrie)

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

If you rode by night or the daylight
in the wind or the sun,
You would always see East Texas Red
just a his smooth-runnin gun.
And the tale got switched down the and mains,
and said
That the meanest
on them irons
was that East Texas Red.

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

East 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 your business
Cause gonna ride
your little train just one year from today."

Well Red he laughed and he climbed the
and he swung on the of a wheeler,
The boys caught a to Seminole
then 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 them a train.
shivered and shook with the dough in their clothes
to the oak flats again,
With their warm suits of clothes and
they walked a store.
They paid man
for some and stuff
just a boil of once more.

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

Red to his kness 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 out of an overcoat
and it that old one two,
And Red was dead when the two men
sat to eat their stew.