Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

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

His grin stretched the of his pasty white cheeks
And his hurled a dollop of murk on the curb
And the lights from the showed a mischievous sparkle
That in his hollow 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 this old puppet from me
That I hold in my as we speak"

And he looking down at the innocent girl
And she stared at the bewildered
Then he lifted the for the young girl to see
And a giant smile on his face

She saw the eyes and she couldn't resist
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 looked mean

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

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

But the wind was harder
And her skirt to billow, until 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 over the
And the valleys and treetops they'd and glide
Soaring and suspended on air
With the earth far below they'd tumble
And dive through the

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

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

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

As stood and shook her head the joggers were approaching
And she knew she had no left but to swim
As the frosty water sank its bitter teeth her hide
She tried to slide the heavy clothing 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 wrapped its
Little arms around her ankle and let her go

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