Luyện nghe bài hát John Brown

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

As that old train pulled out, ma began to shout,
ev'ryone in the neighborhood:
"That's my son that's about to go, a soldier now, you know."
She made sure 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 about her son with his 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.
They ceased to come for ten months or more.
Then a letter finally saying, "Go down and meet the train.
Your son's home from the war."
She smiled and went right down, she looked everywhere
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 a metal brace 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, pray tell me what done.
How is it you to be this way?"
He tried his 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 were . . . acting proud.
You wasn't there in my shoes."

"Oh, and I thought when I was there, God, 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! like mine!

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