Luyện nghe bài hát Hartfordtown 1944

It was a dry and dusty day
When wagon train pulled in
Just three hours 'til the
Was to begin
As the unloaded the flats
A crowd did to see
The elephants tow the back
To that empty lot on Street

And the they dug right in
'Til on spot where nothing had been
You could see the from miles around
When the circus came to

The circus it was front news
in Nineteen Forty-Four
Everyone was grateful for any
To forget the war
The sun beat on the menagerie
In the cages the animals
was orangeade and cotton candy
And a smile on every kid's

mother and father, each boy and girl
They couldn't wait to see the greatest in the world
You could hear the orchestra, they cheered so loud
When the circus came to

were polar bears and panther cats
With big fangs and claws
And the did a balancing act
To jubilant
Then a spotlight on a platform set
So up in the air
That everybody held breath
And they prayed a silent

All eyes glued to the man on the wire
So nobody knew the tent caught fire
Too slowly it dawned on the crowd
When the circus to Hartfordtown The fire drew air and began to climb
The audience from their seats
was a stampede for the exit sign
And some from the heat
There were heroes who did best to help
The children escape the
And the who managed to save themselves
They survived but never the same

And still remember how the animals cried
But there weren't any inside
Over 100 people trapped as the tent burned
When the came to Hartfordtown

As a boy I on Barbour Street
Four blocks that circus show
And I begged my parents, I got on my knees
But would not let me go
For they had me, two weeks straight
Now I can't even why
But I know the first time I ever
Was I saw that black smoke in the sky

And the war it was in a year I guess
But the people in my town didn't cheer like the
It still our hearts to remember now