Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

Down in the scrub oak timber of the Texas Gulf
used to ride a brakeman and a brakeman double tough
He worked the town of Kilgore and Longview nine down
Us trav'lers called him East Texas Red the bull around.

I by night and by broad daylight in wind and snow and sun
I always seen East Texas Red sporting his smooth running gun
The tale got switched down the stems and main and said
The meanest man on the rails was little East Texas Red.

It was early in the and along towards nine or ten
A couple of boys on the hunt of a job stood in the wind
Hungry and cold they knocked on the doors of the working around
For a of meat and a spud or two to boil a stew around.

Red he come down the cinder and he flagged the number two
He kicked their bucket over a bush and he out all their stew
A traveler said, Mister East Texas Red you better get everything
you're gonna ride your little train just one year from today.

Red he laughed as he clumb the bank and swung aside of a
The boys caught a tanker to Seminole and to Amarillo
They struck them a job of oil field work and a pipe line down
It took lots of places till the year had rolled around.

On one cold and wintery day they hooked them a bound train
shivered and shook with dough in their clothes to see Kilgore again
Over hills of sand and hard froze roads where the cotton wagons
On past the town of and on to old Longview.

With their warm suits of and overcoats they walk into a store
They pay the man for some meat and stuff to fix a stew once
The they walk back past the yards till they come to the same old spot
Where East Texas Red just a year ago had dumped their last pot.

The smoke of their fire went higher and higher a man come down the
He his head in the blizzardy wind and waved old number nine
He walked off down the cinder dump till he to the same old spot
And there was the same three men again around same little pot.

Red went to his and he hollered,
Please pull that trigger on me.
I did not get my business but he did not get his say
A gun wheeled out of an overcoat and it the old one two
And Red was dead when the other two men set down to eat stew.