Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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 stretched the folds of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips hurled a dollop of on the curb
And the lights from the rides a mischievous sparkle
flashed 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 took this old puppet me
I hold in my pail as we speak"

And he stood looking down at the girl
And she at the bucket bewildered
Then he lifted the doll for the girl to see
And a smile grew 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 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, then to
The congregation struggled desperately to fetch
The pretty puppet snugly deep in Esther's leather sack

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

Floating over the hills
And the valleys and treetops they'd and glide
Soaring and suspended on air
the earth far below them they'd tumble
And dive through the

And she began to earthward
Till she landed in the nasty of town
She glanced the village sure to find the evil men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest of night

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

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

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

now she made her way toward the shore
When she felt a tiny tugging at her toe
And the puppet she'd forgotten wrapped its
Little arms around her ankle and let her go

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