Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

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

His grin stretched the folds of his pasty cheeks
And his lips a dollop of murk on the curb
And the lights from the rides showed a mischievous
That in his hollow eyed stare

He said, "Little girl, you can chop off my
And then off my socks if you want 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 innocent
And she at the bucket bewildered
Then he lifted the doll for the young to see
And a giant grew on his face

She saw the doll's eyes and she couldn't
And she thanked the man quickly and ran to the
And she burst through the door with held high
And a hush filled the chapel and the people mean

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

the window of the church, a storm began to rage
And Esther knew the had come to flee
She scurried down the aisle the doorway in the distance
And out into the rainstorm where she she would be free

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

Floating higher over the
And the valleys and treetops they'd and glide
Soaring and suspended on air
the earth far below them they'd tumble
And dive through the

And she began to earthward
Till she landed in the part of town
She glanced about the village sure to find the men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest of night

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

When the morning came, she wandered the streets
Along the chilly that lay beside the town
At a peaceful moment, but she thought she heard a sound
It was an angry mob of joggers coming up to knock her

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

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

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