Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

(Woddy Guthrie)

Down in the scrub oak
to the southeast Texas
There to ride a brakeman,
a double tough.
He the town of Kilgore,
and Longview twelve down,
And the travellers all
East 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
a sportin' his smooth-runnin gun.
And the got switched down the stems and mains,
and everybody
the meanest bull
on them irons
was little East Texas Red.

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

East Texas Red down the line
and he swung off that old two.
He kicked their over a bush
and he out all of their stew.
The travellers said, "Little East Red,
you better get business straight
Cause you're gonna
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 a tanker to Seminole
then to Amarillo.
They caught them a job of oil-field
and a pipeline down.
It them lots of places
before that
had around.

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

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

Red went to his and he hollered
"Please, pull 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 the other two men
sat down to eat stew.