Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

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

I rode by night and by broad daylight in wind and and sun
I always seen little East Texas Red his smooth running gun
The tale got switched the stems and main and everybody said
The man on the shiny 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 in the blizzardy wind
Hungry and cold they knocked on the doors of the working folks
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 stew
A traveler said, Mister East Texas Red you get everything fixed
'Cause you're gonna ride your little train just one from today.

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

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

With their warm suits of clothes and they walk into a store
They pay the man for some meat and to fix a stew once more
The ties they back past the yards till they come to the same old spot
Where East Red just 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 blizzardy wind and waved old nine
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 business 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 two men set down to eat their stew.