Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

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

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

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

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

Red he laughed as he clumb the and swung aside of a wheeler
The boys caught a tanker to 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 cold and wintery day they them a Gulf bound train
They shivered and shook with dough in clothes to see Kilgore again
Over hills of sand and hard froze roads where the cotton roll
On past the town of and on to old Longview.

With their warm 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 the yards till they 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 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 same pot.

Red to his knees and he hollered,
Please don't pull trigger on me.
I did not get my business 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.