Luyện nghe bài hát Lament for Lester Cousins

music and by Corb Lund

Lester Cousins left his brothers on a truck filled with others
Cuz his fatherd left his years ago
And Lesters mother in lovers to feed and clothe his younger brothers
So at thirteen years our Lester to go

Men introduced him to hard labour, moving earth and hay
Were all the that were open to the boy
And the men showed our Lester Lady Lucks appeal and blessed her
With a trusting disciple to enjoy

With the gamblin came the drinkin and the and the sinkin
That a man whos falling down
And pretty soon the fightin and the whoring night
And pills and losing his spirit on the ground

there comes a time when even hardened men need to believe in
Something more and look within and be
When a particularly rough night took his friend in one more knife
For the time in his hard life Lester prayed

Lester now, now, keep it together, we all want to see you succeed
Lester now, now, hold it together, cuz your goodness is what the world needs
Lester now, Lester now, keep it together and lose that spirit of yours
And for the sake of us all, Lester, try not to fall with the of the world at your door
And for the of us all, Lester, try not to fall with the fate of the world on the floor
And for the sake of us all, Lester, try not to fall with the hate of the as your whore

Well God led Lester to a who was finally worth the wait
He a ring and changed his ways and settled down
And he farmed his forty acres, a daughter, loved his Maker
Loved his and earned respect all through the town

Hard at work and clean and fifteen years come this October
All the vices of his had disappeared
Very little did he then that the young, out of control men
his motherd learned to dread would reappear

Well his and home were shattered and his wife and daughter battered
When the kind he so well came back around
An incontainable induced Lester to regress and
Coldly those whod raped the love hed found

It didnt take them to find him or convict him or confine him
To a cell block full of wounded doom
Because despite his mothers will, her Cousins was a killer now
Whod never to leave the jailers tomb