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, AN IRISH GAL HIS BRIDE
HE WORKED AS A WAITER AND SHE AS HIS WIFE
AND THEY STRUGGLED HARD TO MAKE THOSE TIMES THE YEARS OF THEIR LIVES.

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

AND MY TOOK HER EIGHT KIDS 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 PADDY IN THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.

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

THEN I MET A GIRL FROM AND SHE QUICKLY WON MY HEART
WE WERE MARRIED IN THE IN JUNE AND TOGETHER MADE A START
WE SURVIVIED THE GREAT THOUGH WE OFTEN WE LIVED IN DIVES
AND WE HAD THREE SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE BEST 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 CANNOT UP
FOR A MAN'S ALONE WHEN THERE IS NO MORE HOME WITH HIS KIDS AN DARLING
AND I KNOW ARE ALL BEHIND ME NOW, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIFE.