Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

His grin stretched the folds of his white cheeks
And his hurled a dollop of murk on the curb
And the lights from the 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 this old from me
That I hold in my as we speak"

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

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

Esther in vain to pacify the mob
Quibble grew to spat, to wrangle, to brawl
The congregation struggled desperately to fetch
The puppet snugly nestled deep in Esther's leather sack

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

But the wind was blowing
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 set adrift

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

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

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

When the morning came, she wandered the streets
the chilly lake that 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 stood and shook her head the joggers were approaching
And she she had no choice left but to swim
As the frosty water sank its teeth into her hide
She tried to slide the clothing from her skin

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

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