Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

Down in the oak timber of the Southeast Texas Gulf
There used to ride a and a brakeman double tough
He worked the of Kilgore and Longview nine miles down
Us called him East Texas Red the meanest bull around.

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

It was early in the morning and along 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 folks around
For a piece of and a spud or two to boil a stew around.

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

Red he as he clumb the bank and swung aside of a wheeler
The caught a tanker to Seminole and west to Amarillo
struck them a job of oil field work and followed 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
They shivered and with dough in their clothes to see Kilgore again
Over hills of sand and hard froze roads where the wagons roll
On the town of Kilgore and on to old Longview.

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

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

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