Luyện nghe bài hát THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

I WAS BORN IN LONDON ENGLAND IN HUNDRED AND FIVE
MY WAS A GERMAN, WITH AN IRISH GAL HIS BRIDE
HE WORKED AS A WAITER AND SHE WORKED AS HIS
AND THEY STRUGGLED HARD TO MAKE THOSE THE BEST YEARS OF THEIR LIVES.

BUT WITH WORLD WORLD ONE THE GERMAN HUN FORCES WITH THE CROWN.
AND THE BRITISH LOCKED THEIR GERMANS UP WHEREVER WERE FOUND.
THEY TOOK MY GERMAN FATHER HIS CHILDREN AND HIS WIFE,
AND LOCKED HIM UP ON THE ISLE OF MAN FOR THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

AND MY MAMA TOOK HER EIGHT BACK TO HER HOME IN THE COUNTY CLAIRE
YOU'RE NOT BRITISH SON NOR GERMAN NOW IRISH, SHE DECLARED.
SHE TAUGHT US TO LOVE IRELAND AND TO HATE THE TIN MINES,
AND THE EIGHT OF US TURNED IN THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.

I LANDED IN AMERICA IN NINETEEN TWENTY
AND I GOT A JOB AND I WORKED HARD TO UNITE MY FAMILY
AND ONE BE ONE I BROUGHT THEM HERE TO SHARE IN AMERICA'S
OF A BRAND NEW DAY THE USA WERE THE BEST OF OUR LIVES.

THEN I MET A GIRL FROM AND SHE QUICKLY WON MY HEART
WE WERE MARRIED IN THE BRONX IN JUNE AND TOGETHER MADE A
WE SURVIVIED THE DEPRESSION THOUGH WE OFTEN WE LIVED IN DIVES
AND WE HAD SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE BEST YEARS OF LIVES.

BUT MY LOVE IS GONE NOW AND I AM OLD AND THE ALL GROWN UP
AND NO MATTER WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY THE DRINK I GIVE UP
FOR A MAN'S ALONE THERE IS NO MORE HOME WITH HIS KIDS AN DARLING WIFE
AND I KNOW ARE ALL BEHIND ME NOW, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIFE.