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 swung in his

His grin stretched the folds of his white cheeks
And his hurled a dollop of murk on the curb
And the lights from the rides showed a sparkle
That flashed in his 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 took this old puppet 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 thanked the man and ran to the church
And she burst through the door with puppet held
And a hush the chapel and the people looked mean

Esther tried in vain to 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

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

But the wind was harder
And her skirt began to billow, finally her feet began to lift
And she rose above the houses and the and the chimneys
And Esther and the were set adrift

Floating over the hills
And the valleys and treetops flutter and glide
Soaring and suspended on air
With the far below them they'd tumble
And dive the clouds

And she began to earthward
she landed in the nasty part of town
She glanced about the village sure to 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 quite Esther hid behind
A nearby pile of lumber, she waited till the dawn
it would have been a blunder
To succumb to a hoodlum on the

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

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

Naked now she made her way the shore
When suddenly she felt a tiny at her toe
And the puppet she'd wrapped its tiny
Little arms around her and wouldn't 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 old man filled her ears
As she drifted away to a tranquil and motionless