Luyện nghe bài hát Half a Life Away

Gill and Galloway were working
On a summers in '58
In a town, Alabama hideaway
In the U.S.A.

Two cops were knocking on the
Of a black boy, it was a quarter to four
They said, "Hey, nigger, hit the
about to be history"

Pop Bickham was the young man
He couldn't work it out, he didn't
But when they come with guns, you do what you can
So he picked up his rifle and he shot down

They said, "He killed in cold blood"
And the jury, agreed
They said, "You'll be sorry for you've done"
And the whole town they

They picked you up and sent you down
A poor boy in a rich white town
And for thirty years you never made a sound
That was half a life away, a life away

You see one of the cops had something to
raped Pop's sister more than once or twice
And Pop wasn't going to let it go time
So the had to take him out

But the courtroom didn't hear all of the
They held back from the all white jury
No doubt, what the would be
Take him down, he's

They picked you up and they you down
A poor black boy in a rich white
And for thirty eight years you never made a
was half a life away

All years in a prison cell
Never once complaining your life gone to hell
All of hatred and bigotry
You're a man than me

picked you up and they sent you down
A poor boy in a rich white town
And for eight years you never made a sound
was half a life away, oh, ohh

They picked you up and sent you down
A poor black boy in a rich white
And for eight years you never made a sound
That was half a life away, half a life