Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

It was late one fall night at a near town
When Esther saw the Armenian man
Who groveled her and stood by her side
With a bucket that swung in his

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

He said, "Little girl, you can chop off my
And peel off my socks if you want to
But I'd you took this 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
he lifted the doll for the young girl to see
And a smile grew on his face

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

Esther tried in to pacify the mob
Quibble grew to spat, to wrangle, then to
The frenzied congregation desperately to fetch
The pretty puppet snugly nestled deep in Esther's leather

the window of the church, a storm began 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 wind was harder
And her began to billow, until finally her feet began to lift
And she rose above the and the people and the chimneys
And Esther and the doll were set

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

And she began to plummet
Till she in the nasty part of town
She glanced about the village sure to find the men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest hour of

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

When the morning came, she through the streets
Along the chilly lake 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 knock her

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

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