Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

His grin the folds of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips 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 off my legs
And then off my socks if you want to
But I'd rather you took this old from me
That I in my pail 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 smile grew on his

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

Esther tried in to pacify the mob
grew to spat, to wrangle, then to brawl
The frenzied congregation struggled desperately to
The pretty puppet snugly deep in Esther's leather sack

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

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

higher over the hills
And the and treetops they'd flutter and glide
Soaring and turning on air
With the far below them they'd tumble
And through the clouds

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

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

When the morning came, she through the streets
Along the chilly that lay beside the town
At last a peaceful moment, but she thought she heard a
It was an mob of joggers coming up to knock 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 water sank its bitter teeth into her
She tried to slide the heavy clothing her skin

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

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