Luyện nghe bài hát THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

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

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

AND MY MAMA TOOK HER EIGHT KIDS BACK TO HER IN THE COUNTY CLAIRE
NOT BRITISH SON NOR GERMAN NOW YOUR IRISH, SHE DECLARED.
SHE TAUGHT US TO LOVE AND TO HATE THE BLACKENED TIN MINES,
AND THE EIGHT OF US TURNED PADDY IN THE YEARS OF OUR LIVES.

I LANDED IN AMERICA IN NINETEEN THREE
AND I GOT A JOB AND I WORKED REAL TO UNITE MY FAMILY
AND ONE BE ONE I THEM HERE TO SHARE IN AMERICA'S PRIZE
OF A NEW DAY THE USA WERE THE BEST YEARS 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 A START
WE SURVIVIED THE GREAT DEPRESSION THOUGH WE OFTEN WE IN DIVES
AND WE HAD THREE SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE BEST OF LIVES.

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