Luyện nghe bài hát She Made Herself A Promise

Jerry Jeff

As a teenage girl in Texas, raised on dust and and cactus
She first saw of the river Seine
From her window late at night, pretend the stars were lights
Of the in the St. Germain des Pres

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And she longed to see the world, and converse with girls
As they laughed and talked and walked the boulevard
To float to Paris and the lights in a taxi at night
like a leap of faith to make from this old farm
But she made a promise that someday she'd celebrate
Her birthday in the St. Germain des

After she got married, she worked in theatre and had some babies
Her took on directions of its own
She became a working mother, she her life for others
For her husband, for the children and her

one day her grown daughter said, she was off to Europe and
Have you ever thought about it
She said of I used to honey, a lot when I was your age
But I thought about it much until right now
She remembered the promise, that someday she's
Her birthday in the St. des Pres

She sees how quickly can pass by, how easily a dream dies
You can't just live your for someone else
So she boards the plane for Paris, she thinks she'll need a new
As she keeps that promise to herself

Oh she thought she'd do it sooner, so important to her
But life on when you're off making plans
But every now and then it happens, a chance for you to grab it
That's why this time she just couldn't let it
Cause she made herself a that someday she'd celebrate
Her birthday in the St. Germain des

And later take a walk beside the