Luyện nghe bài hát John Brown

John Brown went off to war to fight on a shore.
His mama sure was of him!
He straight and tall in his uniform and all.
His face broke out all in a grin.
"Oh son, you so fine, I'm glad you're a son of mine,
You make me to know you hold a gun.
Do what the captain says, of medals you will get,
And put them on the wall when you come home."

As old train pulled out, John's ma began to shout,
Tellin' ev'ryone in the
"That's my son that's about to go, he's a now, you know."
She well sure her neighbors understood.

She got a letter once in a while and her face broke into a
As she them to the people from next door.
And she bragged about her son his uniform and gun,
And things you called a good old-fashioned war.

Oh! old-fashioned war!

Then the letters ceased to come, for a long they did not come.
ceased to come for about ten months or more.
Then a letter finally saying, "Go down and meet the train.
son's a-coming home from the war."
She smiled and went down, she looked everywhere around
But she not see her soldier son in sight.
But as all the passed, she saw her son at last,
she did she could hardly believe her eyes.

Oh his was all shot up and his hand was all blown off
And he wore a metal around his waist.
He kind of slow, in a voice she did not know,
While she even recognize his face!

Oh! Lord! Not even his face.

"Oh tell me, my darling son, tell me what they done.
How is it you to be this way?"
He his best to talk but his mouth could hardly move
And the had to turn her face away.
"Don't you remember, Ma, when I off to war
You it was the best thing I could do?
I was on the battleground, you home . . . acting proud.
You wasn't there in my shoes."

"Oh, and I when I was there, God, what am I doing here?
I'm a-tryin' to somebody or die tryin'.
But the thing that scared me most was when my enemy close
And I saw that his face looked just mine."

Oh! Lord! Just mine!

"And I couldn't but think, through the thunder rolling and stink,
That I was a puppet in a play.
And through the roar and smoke, string is finally broke,
And a cannon ball my eyes away."

As he turned to walk, his Ma was still in shock
At the metal brace that helped him stand.
But as he turned to go, he called his mother
And he dropped his medals down her hand.