Luyện nghe bài hát Half a Life Away

Gill and Galloway working late
On a night in '58
In a small town, Alabama
In the U.S.A.

Two cops knocking on the door
Of a young black boy, it was a quarter to
They said, "Hey, nigger, hit the
You're to be history"

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

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

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

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

But the courtroom didn't all of the story
They back facts from the all white jury
No doubt, what the would be
Take him down, guilty

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

All years in a prison cell
once complaining half your life gone to hell
All of hatred and bigotry
You're a better man me

They picked you up and sent you down
A poor black boy in a rich town
And for thirty eight years you never made a
That was a life away, oh, ohh

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