Luyện nghe bài hát Sixteen Straws

One Sunday
While I was out
By the Brisbane's
I chanced to
I found a prisoner
Layed in the water
seen me coming
And he to say

"I was a native of Erin's
And I was brought
To this place
They me away
From my wife and
And my ailing
been a prisoner at Port Macquarie
Norfolk and Emu Plains
At Castle Hill and cursed
At all of these
I've in chains
But of all the of condemnation
At each penal station of New South
To Moreton Bay I've no equal
The tyranny makes all the rest pale

I met O'Brien
The defender Ulster
He'd left Ireland
Came here for the
He was a
A Jacobite
He could not be
But he displaced
The Jew had one
He was a man
He'd worn the 20 pound
Since before time
Just before the dawn
His starvation
He'd pick the corn from the
He'd find around
ain't no walls at all
So remote is the
The Commandant
Was the for sure
His flogger was mad
I a prison guard say
He'd wash his in a bucket
Then drinks the

I heard a rumour
In the barracks one
The Jew and O'Brien had fashioned a
They meant to Logan
But my was broke
My reeled with this secret
And the next day I
put me back on the gang
With no of my actions
and the Jew
Got 300
came off his triangle
With exposed blades
His never healed
He turned and strange

We was out on the road
digging a hole
I was struggling with
My nerves had
To 15 pairs of
proposed,
'Shall we go to the
Be done with our
You know the
Fair all I'm asking
We'll 16 straws then nothing is wanting
Why should we at the
of our lives
When we're only condemned by our to survive? '

16 straws we did did draw
I the long one
The Jew the short
He 'pray God forgives you
At least make it
14 of eyes watched me
a a shiv through his heart
And for a few moments was no
the blood
Then said 'friends!
On a this ends
But a long was to Brisbane
And we are dangerous

Logan was wild
We him with bile
He'd the Catholic dodge
suicide
We'd his powers
But not that of the
Or the judge the river's
But we was to swing
We were through the scrub
Off to for trial
Chained into a
Set off at low
With 6 nervous
And 6 Enfield
The end of the world
And indifferent sky

I turned to torpor
At the in the sun
But I the others must have come undone
I breathing smoke in a chaos of limbs
A red squirting blood
a hole in his chin
And a volley of in my general direction
There was and shot
And the smell of powder
I threw a up over the side
It was dark by the
But I could see the lights
Crouched in the back
The wrong of the guns
scorched by the powder
I surely I'm done
I seen ghoulish
Men show limb from
was dead
There pieces of him
I off my shirt
I was quite burnt
My eyes poured like well
They were and hurt
I'm not who survived
My whole trunk was on
But they borke the off me
And I bailed the side. "

Well I was amazed by this poor wretch's
I'd heard not of the
He had left in the
But I'd just seen the
And I had to
How his Logan
Had just this day
"He'd set out you
He was out game
When he startled some
a spear through his brain"
Then the prisoner "good"
I heard in boots
I turned around and when
The Royal Marines