Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

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

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

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

And he stood down at the innocent girl
And she stared at the bewildered
he lifted the doll for the young girl to see
And a giant grew on his face

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

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

Through the of the church, a storm began to rage
And Esther knew the time had to flee
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 harder
And her skirt began to billow, until finally her feet to lift
And she rose above the houses and the people and the
And and the doll were set adrift

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

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

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

When the morning came, she wandered the streets
the chilly 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 shook her head the joggers were
And she knew she had no choice but to swim
As the frosty water sank its bitter into her hide
She tried to slide the heavy clothing from her

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 waves 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