Luyện nghe bài hát Forefathers

They from Scandinavia, the land of midnight sun
And crossed the Atlantic when this century was young
They'd that in America, every man was free
To the way he chose to live and be who he could be

Some of were farmers there and tilled the frozen soil
But all got was poverty for all their earnest toil
They say one was a sailor, who sailed the world round
Made port, got drunk one night, walked off the pier and drowned

My mother was of Scottish blood, it's there she was born
They brought her to in 1924
left behind the Highlands and the heather covered hills
And came to find with broad expectant dreams and iron wills

My dad worked the steel mills of Central Illinois
His daughter was his jewel, his son was his boy
For thirty years he the mills, and stoked the coke fed fires
And looked toward the day he had last turned
Sixty-five and retire

And the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be
As the torch is passed from hand to
And we struggle our lives
the generations wander, the lineage survives
And all of us, from dust to
We all become by and by

Woman and the man were wed, just the war
And they settled in this river town and three sons she bore
One became a lawyer and one fine drew
One became lonely soul
Who sits here now and sings song to you

And the sons become the and their daughters will be wives
As the is passed from hand to hand
And we through our lives
Though the wander, the lineage survives
And all of us, from to dust
We all forefathers by and by

By and by
By and by