Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

It was late one night at a fairground near town
When first saw the Armenian man
Who toward her and stood by her side
a bucket that swung 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 a mischievous sparkle
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 puppet me
That I hold in my as we speak"

And he stood looking down at the girl
And she at the bucket bewildered
he lifted the doll for the young girl to see
And a giant grew on his face

She saw the doll's eyes and she resist
And she the man quickly and ran to the church
And she burst through the with puppet held high
And a hush filled the chapel and the looked mean

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

Through the window of the church, a storm began to
And Esther the time had come to flee
She scurried down the aisle toward the 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 finally her feet began to
And she rose above the and the people and the chimneys
And Esther and the doll were set

Floating higher the hills
And the valleys and treetops they'd flutter and
and turning 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 about the village sure to find the evil men
Who rob and in the darkest hour of night

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 hoodlum on the

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

As Esther stood and shook her 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 to slide the heavy clothing from her skin

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

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