Luyện nghe bài hát Sixteen Straws

One Sunday
I was out walking
By the waters
I chanced to
I found a prisoner
Layed in the water
He'd me coming
And he to say

"I was a native of Ireland
And before I was
To this place
dragged me away
From my and newborn
And my parents
I've a prisoner at Port Macquarie
Island and Emu Plains
At Castle Hill and cursed
At all of these
I've worked in
But of all the of condemnation
At each penal station of New Wales
To Bay I've found no equal
The there makes all the rest pale

There I met
The defender Ulster
He'd left burning
Came here for the
He was a
A Jacobite
He not be broken
But he displaced
The Jew had one
He was a man
He'd the 20 pound irons
Since before time
Just before the broke
His starvation
He'd the corn from the filth
He'd laying around
There no walls at all
So remote is the
The Logan
Was the devil for
His flogger was mad
I a prison guard say
wash his lash in a bucket
Then the remains

Well I heard a
In the one night
The Jew and O'Brien had fashioned a
meant to kill Logan
But my will was
My brain reeled with secret
And the day I spoke
put me back on the gang
With no word of my
and the Jew
Got 300
O'Brien off his triangle
With exposed shoulder
His never healed
He morbid and strange

We was out on the road
digging a hole
I was with conscience
My nerves had
To 15 of eyes
proposed,
'Shall we go to the
Be done with our
You know the
play's all I'm asking
We'll draw 16 straws then is wanting
Why we grasp at the
of our lives
When we're condemned by our will to survive? '

16 straws we did then did
I the long one
The Jew picked the
He said 'pray God you
At least it quick'
14 pairs of eyes me
Pounding a a through his heart
And for a few there was no
the blood
Then O'Brien 'friends!
On a scaffold this
But it's a long was to
And we are men'

Logan was wild
We filled him bile
seen the Catholic dodge
Plain
We'd his powers
But not of the King's
Or the judge the river's
But we was to swing
We were marched the scrub
Off to Brisbane for
into a whaler
Set off at low
With 6 marines
And 6 Enfield
The end of the world
And indifferent sky

Well I turned to
At the in the sun
But I gathered the others must have undone
I woke breathing smoke in a of limbs
A red coat blood
Through a hole in his
And a volley of fire in my direction
There was panic and
And the smell of burning
I a rifle up over the side
It was dark by the
But I could see the shore
Crouched down in the
The wrong side of the
Getting scorched by the
I thought I'm done
I seen things
Men show from limb
was dead
There were of him
I tore off my
I was quite burnt
My eyes poured well springs
were swollen and hurt
I'm not sure who
My trunk was on fire
But they borke the off me
And I bailed the side. "

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