Luyện nghe bài hát John Doe No. 24

I was standing on the sidewalk in
In Jacksonville,
asked what my name was there came no reply
They said I was a deaf and sightless wit boy

But Louis was my name, I could not say it
I was born and raised in New
My spirit was wild, so I let the take it
On a barge and a upstream

Well, searched for a mother
And they for a father
And they searched till they no more
The doctors put to their scientific tests
And they me 'John Doe No. 24'

And they all shook their in pity
For a so silent and dark
Well, no doubt that life's a mystery
But so too is the heart

And it was my heart's own
When the crepe jasmine on Rue Morgue Avenue
Though I couldn't hear the
Of the streetcars coming by toeing the track I

And if I were an old man
my satchel and porkpie hat
I'd hit every joint on Bourbon
And I'd hit everyone on Basin that

The kept passing as they passed me around
From one state to another
I was an orphan shoe from the lost and found
Always missing the

And they me a harp last Christmas
And all the nurses took a
But I've been growing listless
been dreaming again of the past

I'm wandering down to the
Of the great Big Muddy the shotgun houses stand
I am years old and I feel my dad
Reach out for my

While I breath no one missed me
So won't on the day that I cease
Put a of crepe jasmine with me
To me of New Orleans

I was standing on the sidewalk in
In Jacksonville,