Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

It was late one fall night at a near town
When first saw the Armenian man
Who groveled toward her and by her side
With a bucket that swung in his

His grin stretched the folds of his white cheeks
And his lips a dollop of murk on the curb
And the lights from the showed a mischievous sparkle
That flashed in his hollow stare

He said, "Little girl, you can chop off my
And then peel off my socks if you to
But I'd rather you took old puppet from me
That I in my pail as we speak"

And he stood looking down at the girl
And she stared at the bewildered
Then he lifted the doll for the girl to see
And a giant smile grew on his

She saw the eyes and she couldn't resist
And she thanked the man and ran to the church
And she burst through the door puppet held high
And a hush filled the chapel and the looked mean

Esther tried in to pacify the mob
Quibble grew to spat, to wrangle, to brawl
The frenzied congregation struggled to fetch
The pretty puppet snugly nestled deep in Esther's sack

Through the window of the church, a storm to rage
And Esther knew the time had to flee
She scurried down the aisle toward the in the distance
And out into the rainstorm where she felt she would be

But the wind was blowing
And her skirt began to billow, until her feet began to lift
And she rose above the houses and the and the chimneys
And Esther and the doll were set

higher over the hills
And the valleys and treetops flutter and glide
Soaring and turning on air
With the earth far below they'd tumble
And dive through the

And she began to plummet
Till she in the nasty part of town
She about the village sure to find the evil men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest hour of

Nervously she fumbled for the pouch that the puppet on her rump
Feeling outnumbered Esther hid behind
A nearby pile of lumber, where she till the dawn
'Cause it have been a blunder
To succumb to a hoodlum on the

When the morning came, she through the streets
the chilly lake that lay beside the town
At last a moment, but she thought she heard a sound
It was an mob of joggers coming up to knock her down

As Esther and shook her head the joggers were approaching
And she knew she had no choice left but to
As the frosty water its bitter teeth into her hide
She tried to slide the clothing from her skin

Naked now she made her way toward the
When suddenly she a tiny tugging at her toe
And the she'd forgotten wrapped its tiny
arms around her ankle and wouldn't let her go

The waves seemed to open and her whole
As the doll pulled her through the eerie green deep
And the sound of the old man filled her ears
As she drifted to a tranquil and motionless sleep