Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

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

I rode by night and by daylight in wind and snow and sun
I always seen little East Texas Red sporting his running gun
The tale got down the stems and main and everybody said
The man on the shiny 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 in the blizzardy wind
Hungry and cold they knocked on the doors of the folks around
For a of meat and a spud or two to boil a stew around.

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

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

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

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

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

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