Luyện nghe bài hát John Brown

John went off to war to fight on a foreign shore.
His mama was proud of him!
He stood straight and 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 me proud 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 that old train out, John's ma began to shout,
Tellin' ev'ryone in the
"That's my son that's to go, he's a soldier now, you know."
She made well her neighbors understood.

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

Oh! old-fashioned war!

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

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

Oh! Lord! Not recognize his face.

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

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

Oh! Lord! like mine!

"And I help but think, through the thunder rolling and stink,
I was just a puppet in a play.
And through the roar and smoke, this string is broke,
And a cannon ball my eyes away."

As he turned away to walk, his Ma was in shock
At seein' the brace that helped him stand.
But as he to go, he called his mother close
And he dropped his medals into her hand.