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 brakeman double
He worked the town of and Longview nine miles down
Us trav'lers called him East Texas Red the meanest around.

I by night and by broad 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 said
The meanest man on the shiny was little East Texas Red.

It was early in the morning and towards nine or ten
A couple of boys on the of a job stood in the blizzardy wind
and cold they 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 flagged the two
He kicked their over a bush and he dumped out all their stew
A traveler said, Mister Texas Red you better get everything fixed
'Cause you're gonna ride your little train just one year today.

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

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

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

The smoke of fire went higher and higher a man come down the line
He ducked his head in the blizzardy wind and waved old number
He walked off the cinder dump till he come to the same old spot
And there was the same three men around that same 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 wheeled out of an and it played the old one two
And Red was dead when the other two men set to eat their stew.