Luyện nghe bài hát Sixteen Straws

One Sunday
I was out walking
By the Brisbane's
I chanced to
There I found a
half in the water
He'd me coming
And he to say

"I was a of Erin's Ireland
And I was brought
To this terrible
They dragged me
From my wife and
And my parents
I've been a prisoner at Macquarie
Norfolk Island and Emu
At Castle Hill and Toongabbie
At all of these
I've worked in
But of all the places of
At penal station of New South Wales
To Bay I've found no equal
The tyranny makes all the rest pale

There I met
The from Ulster
He'd left burning
here for the wake
He was a
A Jacobite
He not be broken
But he displaced
The Jew had one
He was a man
worn the 20 pound irons
Since before began
Just before the dawn
His awoke
He'd the corn from the filth
He'd find around
There no walls at all
So remote is the
The Commandant
Was the for sure
His flogger was mad
I heard a guard say
He'd his lash in a bucket
Then drinks the

Well I heard a
In the one night
The Jew and O'Brien had a knife
They meant to Logan
But my was broke
My brain reeled this secret
And the day I spoke
put me back on the gang
With no word of my
and the Jew
Got 300
O'Brien came off his
With shoulder blades
His never healed
He turned morbid and

We was out on the gang
Just digging a
I was struggling conscience
My nerves had
To 15 pairs of
proposed,
'Shall we go to the
Be with our woes?
You the game
Fair play's all I'm
We'll draw 16 then nothing is wanting
Why should we at the
Straws of our
When we're condemned by our will to survive? '

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

Well was wild
We him with bile
He'd seen the Catholic
suicide
We'd his powers
But not that of the
Or the judge down the
But we was happy to
We were marched through the
Off to Brisbane for
into a whaler
Set off at low
With 6 nervous
And 6 Enfield
The arse end of the
And indifferent sky

Well I to torpor
At the in the sun
But I gathered the others must have undone
I woke breathing smoke in a chaos of
A red squirting blood
Through a in his chin
And a volley of fire in my direction
There was and shot
And the smell of burning
I threw a rifle up the side
It was dark by the
But I could see the lights
Crouched down in the
The side of the guns
Getting by the powder
I thought I'm done
I ghoulish things
Men show from limb
O'Brien was
were pieces of him
I tore off my
I was quite burnt
My eyes poured like springs
They swollen and hurt
I'm not sure who
My whole trunk was on
But they borke the off me
And I bailed the side. "

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