Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

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

I rode by night and by daylight in wind and snow and sun
I always seen little 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 of the working folks around
For a piece of meat and a spud or two to boil a around.

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

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

On one and wintery day they hooked them a Gulf bound train
They shivered and shook dough in their clothes to see Kilgore again
Over hills of sand and froze roads where the cotton wagons roll
On the town of Kilgore 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 more
The ties they walk back 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 to the same old spot
And there was the same three men again around that little pot.

Red went to his and he hollered,
Please 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.