Luyện nghe bài hát John Brown

John went off to war to fight on a foreign shore.
His sure was proud of him!
He straight and tall in his uniform and all.
His face broke out all in a grin.
"Oh son, you look so fine, I'm 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 we'll put them on the wall when you home."

As that old train out, John's ma began to shout,
ev'ryone in the neighborhood:
"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 and her face broke into a smile
As she showed them to the from next door.
And she bragged her son with his uniform and gun,
And these things you called a old-fashioned war.

Oh! old-fashioned war!

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

Oh his face was all up and his hand was all blown off
And he wore a metal brace 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, pray me what they done.
How is it you come to be way?"
He tried his to talk but his mouth could hardly move
And the mother had to her face away.
"Don't you remember, Ma, when I off to war
You thought it was the thing I could do?
I was on the battleground, you were home . . . proud.
You wasn't there in my shoes."

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

Oh! Lord! like mine!

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

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