Luyện nghe bài hát Lament for Lester Cousins

music and lyrics by Lund

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

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

With the gamblin came the and the cocaine and the sinkin
accompanies a man whos falling down
And pretty soon the fightin and the whoring night
And pills and left his spirit on the ground

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

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

Well God led Lester to a lady who was finally worth the
He bought a and changed his ways and settled down
And he his forty acres, raised a daughter, loved his Maker
his wife and earned respect all through the town

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

Well his life and were shattered and his wife and daughter battered
When the kind he knew so came back around
An incontainable aggression Lester to regress and
Coldly murder those whod the love hed found

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