Luyện nghe bài hát THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

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

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

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

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

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

BUT MY IS GONE NOW AND I AM OLD AND THE CHILDREN ALL GROWN UP
AND NO MATTER WHAT THE SAY THE DRINK I CANNOT GIVE UP
FOR A MAN'S ALONE WHEN THERE IS NO MORE HOME HIS KIDS AN DARLING WIFE
AND I KNOW THEY ARE ALL BEHIND ME NOW, THE BEST OF OUR LIFE.