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

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

AND MY MAMA TOOK HER EIGHT KIDS BACK TO HER HOME IN THE COUNTY
NOT BRITISH SON NOR GERMAN NOW YOUR 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 REAL HARD TO MY FAMILY
AND ONE BE ONE I BROUGHT HERE TO SHARE IN AMERICA'S PRIZE
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 AND TOGETHER MADE A START
WE SURVIVIED THE DEPRESSION THOUGH WE OFTEN WE LIVED IN DIVES
AND WE HAD THREE SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE BEST 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 WITH HIS KIDS AN DARLING WIFE
AND I KNOW THEY ARE ALL BEHIND ME NOW, THE BEST OF OUR LIFE.