Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

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

His grin stretched the folds of his pasty white
And his lips hurled a of murk on the curb
And the lights the rides showed a mischievous sparkle
flashed in his hollow eyed stare

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

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

She saw the doll's eyes and she resist
And she the man quickly and ran to the church
And she burst through the door with puppet high
And a hush filled the chapel and the people mean

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

Through the of the church, a storm began to rage
And Esther knew the time had come to
She down the aisle toward the doorway in the distance
And out the rainstorm where she felt she would be free

But the wind was blowing
And her skirt began to billow, until finally her feet 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 treetops flutter and glide
Soaring and suspended on air
the earth far below them they'd tumble
And through the clouds

And she to plummet earthward
Till she landed in the nasty of town
She glanced about the village sure to find the men
Who rob and in the darkest hour of night

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

When the morning came, she wandered through the
Along the chilly lake that lay the town
At last a 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 but to swim
As the water sank its bitter teeth into her hide
She tried to slide the heavy clothing from her

Naked now she made her way the shore
suddenly she felt a tiny tugging at her toe
And the puppet she'd wrapped its tiny
Little arms around her ankle and let her go

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