Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

His grin stretched the folds of his pasty cheeks
And his lips hurled a of murk on the curb
And the lights from the rides showed a sparkle
That flashed in his hollow stare

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 in my pail as we speak"

And he stood looking down at the innocent
And she stared at the bucket
Then he lifted the doll for the 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 door with puppet held
And a hush filled the and the people looked mean

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

Through the of the church, a storm 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 rainstorm where she felt she be free

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

higher over the hills
And the valleys and they'd flutter and glide
and turning suspended on air
With the earth far them they'd tumble
And dive through the

And she to plummet earthward
she landed in the nasty part of town
She glanced about the village sure to the evil men
Who rob and in the darkest hour of night

Nervously she 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 a blunder
To succumb to a hoodlum on the

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 a sound
It was an angry mob of joggers coming up to knock her

As Esther stood and shook her head the joggers were
And she knew she had no choice left but to
As the frosty water sank its bitter teeth her hide
She tried to slide the heavy clothing from her

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

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