Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

(Woddy Guthrie)

Down in the oak country
to the southeast Texas
used 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 bull around.

If you rode by or the broad daylight
in the wintery or the sun,
You always see little East Texas Red
a sportin' his smooth-runnin gun.
And the tale got switched the stems and mains,
and everybody
That the meanest
on them shiney
was little East Texas Red.

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

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

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

on a cold and windy day
they them a Gulf-bound train.
They shivered and shook with the dough in clothes
to the scrub oak again,
With their warm suits of clothes and
they into a store.
paid that man
for some meat and
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 fire went higher and higher
and Red come the line.
his head tucked low in the wintery wind
he old number nine.
He walked on down the jungle yard
and he to the same old spot
And there was the same two men
that 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 out of an overcoat
and it that old one two,
And Red was when the other two men
sat down to eat stew.