Luyện nghe bài hát Jocko And The Trapeze Lady

Dick

He was a boy when the circus first came to the dust of his Texas town.
And twenty years later, spent twenty years as Jocko the Sad Circus Clown.
He did slap-stick gags in grease paint and rags and the people would laugh they cried.
But they never saw past the clown mask to the sad, empty man locked inside.

The lady swung easy and gracefully, high in the high trapeze swing.
Her parents were flyers. The circus was her life. The was deep in her veins.
High in the spotlights in sequins and pink tights, she flew a bird in the wind.
The saw dust's on daughter, the strong men who caught her all that she brought to her tent.

Jocko down with the center ring clowns with a sad painted smile on his face
And the lady swung easy and gracefully high in the great canvas space.
Jocko up with a tear in his heart and, Lord, he wished he could fly
For she never down at a baggy pants clown who looked up with love in his eyes.

It was Tulsa, the last stop, the last show of the big top, a loud, sell-out crowd the seats.
They clapped for the walk-around and cheered for the clowns. The fliers them to their feet.
a still half-lit match fell in tender dry grass and soon found the dry saw dust floor.
The flames leaped higher. When the heard, "Fire!" they swept like a wave for the door.

Jocko looked up to the top of the tent and a hundred from the ground
Swung the trapeze lady, up on the high swing, alone, no way to get down.
He ran to the that led to the platform, she cried, "Jocko, no! There's no time!"
But her word of fear fell deaf on love's ear as slowly he started to climb.

Hand over hand to the high stand, taking the rope that hung there
With one look down, the sad circus clown looked up and took to the air.
Slow then slowly he started to swing, his turned to tears in the smoke.
then faster and as he swung past her, her strong flier hands found the rope.

She slipped to the ground as the flames the rigging and licked at the rope that he held.
He'd started below when the rigging let go and to the saw dust he fell.
She ran to his and with tears in her eyes, "Oh, no! Jocko, why?" she cried.
He his sad head. "I loved you," he said and he closed his eyes and he died.

Now, the trapeze lady swings easy and high in the great canvass space.
But a place and a time are still etched in her mind of a smile on a sad face.
And she sometimes looks down to the center ring clowns for she never has found.
For she remembers the time when love came to her wearing the face of a clown.