Luyện nghe bài hát Have Some Madeira, M'Dear

She was young, she was pure, she was new, she was
She was fair, she was seventeen.
He was old, he was vile, and no stranger to
He was base, he was bad, he was mean.
He had inveigled her up to his flat
To view his of stamps,
And he said as he to put out the cat,
The wine, his cigar and the

Have some madeira, m'dear. You really nothing to fear.
I'm not trying to tempt you, wouldn't be right,
You drink spirits at this time of night.
Have some madeira, m'dear. It's really nicer than beer.
I don't care for sherry, one cannot stout,
And port is a I can well do without...
It's simply a case of chacun a son
Have madeira, m'dear.

of the wiles of the snake-in-the-grass
And the of the maiden who topes,
She her standards by raising her glass,
Her courage, her and his hopes.
She sipped it, she it, she drained it, she did!
He promptly it again,
And he said as he secretly carved one notch
On the of his gold-headed cane:

Have madeira, m'dear,
I've got a cask of it here.
And once it's been opened, you know it keep.
Do it up. It will help you to sleep.
Have madeira, m'dear.
It's an excellent year.
Now if it were gin, you'd be to say yes
The evil gin would be hard to assess..
Besides it's inclined to me prowess,
Have madeira, m'dear.

Then there flashed through her mind what her mother had
her antepenultimate breath,
"Oh my child, should you guzzle the wine is red
Be prepared for a worse than death!"
She let go her glass with a shrill cry,
Crash! Tinkle! it fell to the
he anguished, "Please do stay" She made no reply,
Made up her mind, and for the door.

Have madeira, m'dear.
Rang out down the hall loud and
With a tremulous cry that was with despair,
As she paused to take breath in the cool air,
Have madeira, m'dear.
The words seemed to in her ear.
the next morning, she woke up in bed
With a smile on her and an ache in her head...
And a beard in her ear'ole that tickled and
some madeira, m'dear!