Luyện nghe bài hát Hartfordtown 1944

It was a dry and dusty day
When that wagon train in
Just hours 'til the matinee
Was scheduled to
As the razorbacks the flats
A crowd did to see
The elephants tow the back
To that lot on Barbour Street

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

The circus it was page news
Back in Forty-Four
Everyone was grateful for any
To about the war
The sun down on the menagerie
In the the animals paced
There was and cotton candy
And a smile on every face

Each and father, each boy and girl
They couldn't to see the greatest show in the world
You could barely the orchestra, they cheered so loud
When the came to Hartfordtown

There were polar and panther cats
With great big fangs and
And the lions did a act
To jubilant
Then a played on a platform set
So up in the air
That everybody held breath
And prayed a silent prayer

All eyes were glued to the man on the
So nobody knew the tent caught fire
Too slowly it dawned on the crowd
the circus came 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
were heroes who did their best to help
The children escape the
And the who managed to save themselves
They survived but were never the

And some still how the animals cried
But there any animals inside
Over 100 people as the tent burned down
When the came to Hartfordtown

As a boy I on Barbour Street
Four blocks from that show
And I my parents, I got down on my knees
But would not let me go
For had grounded 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 in a year I guess
But the people in my town didn't like the rest
It breaks our hearts to remember now