Luyện nghe bài hát East Texas Red

Down in the scrub oak of the Southeast Texas Gulf
There to ride 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 broad daylight in wind and and sun
I always seen little Texas Red sporting his smooth running gun
The tale got switched down the stems and and everybody said
The meanest man on the shiny rails was little East Red.

It was early in the morning and towards nine or ten
A couple of boys on the hunt of a job stood in the wind
Hungry and cold knocked on the doors 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 kicked bucket over a bush and he dumped out all their stew
A said, Mister 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 boys caught a tanker to Seminole and to Amarillo
They struck them a job of oil field work and a pipe line down
It took them lots of till the year had rolled around.

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

With their warm suits of clothes and overcoats they walk a store
They pay the man for some meat and to fix a stew once more
The ties they walk back past the yards 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 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 come to the old spot
And there was the same three men around that same little pot.

Red went to his and he hollered,
don't 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 dead the other two men set down to eat their stew.