Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

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

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

It was early in the morning and along nine or ten
A couple of on the hunt of a job stood 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 over a bush and he dumped out all their stew
A traveler said, East Texas Red you better get everything fixed
'Cause you're gonna ride your little train one year from today.

Red he as he clumb the bank and swung aside of a wheeler
The caught a tanker to Seminole and west to Amarillo
struck them 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 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 wagons roll
On past the town of and on to old Longview.

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

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