Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

It was one fall night at a fairground near town
When Esther first saw the man
Who groveled toward her and stood by her
With a that swung in his hand

His stretched the folds of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips a dollop of murk on the curb
And the from the rides showed a mischievous sparkle
That flashed in his eyed stare

He said, "Little girl, you can off my legs
And then peel off my socks if you to
But I'd rather you this old puppet from me
I hold 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 smile grew on his

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

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

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

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

Floating higher over the
And the valleys and they'd flutter and glide
Soaring and turning on air
With the earth far them they'd tumble
And dive the clouds

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

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

When the morning came, she through the streets
Along the chilly lake 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 the joggers were approaching
And she knew she had no choice left but to
As the frosty water sank its bitter teeth her hide
She to slide the heavy clothing from her skin

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

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