Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

It was late one fall night at a fairground town
When Esther saw the Armenian man
Who toward her and stood by her side
With a bucket that swung in his

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

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

And he stood looking down at the girl
And she stared at the bewildered
Then he the doll for the young girl to see
And a smile 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 puppet held high
And a hush filled the chapel and the people looked

Esther in vain to pacify the mob
Quibble grew to spat, to wrangle, to brawl
The frenzied struggled desperately 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 toward the doorway in the distance
And out the rainstorm where she felt she would be free

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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