Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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 swung in his hand

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

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

And he looking down at the innocent girl
And she at the bucket bewildered
Then he lifted the 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 quickly and ran to the
And she through the door with puppet held high
And a hush filled the chapel and the looked mean

Esther tried in vain to the mob
Quibble to spat, to wrangle, then to brawl
The frenzied congregation struggled desperately to
The pretty puppet snugly nestled in Esther's leather sack

the window of the church, a storm began to rage
And Esther knew the time had come to
She down the aisle toward the doorway in the distance
And out into the rainstorm where she felt she would be

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

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

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

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

When the morning came, she wandered through the
Along the chilly lake 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 Esther and shook her head the joggers were approaching
And she knew she had no choice left but to
As the water sank its bitter teeth into her hide
She tried to the heavy clothing from her skin

Naked now she made her way the shore
When suddenly she a tiny tugging at her toe
And the puppet she'd wrapped its tiny
Little arms around her and wouldn't let her go

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