Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

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

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

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

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

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

Esther in vain to pacify the mob
Quibble to spat, to wrangle, then to brawl
The frenzied congregation desperately to fetch
The pretty puppet snugly nestled deep in Esther's sack

Through the window of the church, a storm to rage
And Esther the time had come to flee
She scurried down the aisle 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 her feet began to lift
And she rose the houses and the people and the chimneys
And Esther and the doll set adrift

Floating higher the hills
And the valleys and treetops flutter and glide
and turning suspended on air
With the earth far below them tumble
And dive through the

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

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

When the morning came, she wandered the streets
Along the lake that lay beside the town
At a peaceful moment, but she thought she heard a sound
It was an angry mob of coming 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 from her skin

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

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