Luyện nghe bài hát Letter From May Alice Jeffers

I'm an old woman
Old as the year,
Hear I say
I was in Laurel, Mississippi,
I live in North today
my grandson James.
Now the children
I had five children before the Great
Five more then.
All of are living now
But the one died in the war.
All the had children, too.

Don't blame the
girl, every boy,
They no burden,
my pride and joy.
I they're beautiful
Like on a tree
And as I am old
They me.
I have worked at every of job
people, preached, and sang
When I was a woman, I built roads
I not worked a job
In years--my grandchildren
Take of me.
Now to me
don't cause poverty
'Cause
Is just people never paid for what we done.
You hear talk--barefoot and
Pregnant. But I been
or not.

I have socialists
They in my home in 1964
For the vote
were like my children
I don't care if they be or white
God you and all the socialists
My first husband was a
We did not but we did dance
When we had our family
I think the white thought the colored
Was over, there was so many,
And the men still ask me to dance.