Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But the was blowing 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 and the doll were set adrift

Floating higher the hills
And the and treetops they'd flutter and glide
and turning suspended on air
With the 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 held the puppet on her rump
quite outnumbered Esther hid behind
A nearby of lumber, where she waited till the dawn
it would have been a blunder
To succumb to a on the prowl

When the morning came, she through the streets
Along the chilly lake that lay beside the
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 she had no choice left but to swim
As the frosty water sank its bitter teeth into her
She tried to slide the clothing from her skin

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

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