Luyện nghe bài hát Hartfordtown 1944

It was a dry and dusty day
When wagon train pulled in
three hours 'til the matinee
Was to begin
As the razorbacks the flats
A did gather to see
The elephants tow the wagons
To that lot on Barbour Street

And the they dug right in
'Til on that spot where had been
You could see the bigtop from miles
When the circus came to

The circus it was page news
Back in Forty-Four
Everyone was for any excuse
To about the war
The sun down on the menagerie
In the the animals paced
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 show in the
You could barely hear the orchestra, they cheered so
When the circus came to

There were polar bears and panther
great big fangs and claws
And the lions did a act
To jubilant
Then a spotlight on a platform set
So up in the air
That everybody their breath
And they prayed a prayer

All eyes were to the man on the wire
So nobody knew when the tent fire
Too slowly it dawned on the sold-out
When the circus came to Hartfordtown The fire drew air and to climb
The audience jumped from their
was a stampede for the exit sign
And some from the heat
There were who did their 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 weren't any animals inside
Over 100 people trapped as the burned down
When the came to Hartfordtown

As a boy I lived on Barbour
Four from 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 when I saw black smoke in the sky

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