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 them were farmers and tilled the frozen soil
But all they got was poverty for all their toil
They say one was a sailor, who sailed the wide 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 America in
They left behind the Highlands and the covered hills
And to find America 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 worked the mills, and the coke fed fires
And looked the day when he had last turned
Sixty-five and retire

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

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

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

By and by
By and by