Luyện nghe bài hát Hartfordtown 1944

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

And the canvasmen they dug in
'Til on that where nothing had been
You could see the bigtop from around
When the came to Hartfordtown

The it was front page news
in Nineteen Forty-Four
Everyone was for any excuse
To forget the war
The sun down on the menagerie
In the cages the animals
There was orangeade and cotton
And a smile on every face

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

There were polar bears and cats
With big fangs and claws
And the lions did a act
To applause
Then a played on a platform set
So up in the air
everybody held their breath
And they prayed a silent

All were glued to the man on the wire
So nobody when the tent caught fire
Too it dawned on the sold-out crowd
When the circus to Hartfordtown The fire drew air and began to climb
The audience from their seats
There was a stampede for the exit
And some fainted from the
There were heroes who did their best to
The escape the flames
And the others who managed to themselves
They but were never the same

And some still remember how the cried
But weren't any animals inside
Over 100 people trapped as the tent down
When the circus came to

As a boy I lived on Street
Four blocks from circus show
And I my parents, I got down on my knees
But they not let me go
For had grounded me, two weeks straight
Now I even remember why
But I know the time I ever prayed
Was when I saw that black in the sky

And the war it was over in a I guess
But the people in my town didn't like the rest
It still breaks our to remember now