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 WAITER AND SHE WORKED AS HIS
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 THEY WERE FOUND.
THEY TOOK MY GERMAN FATHER HIS CHILDREN AND HIS WIFE,
AND THEY LOCKED HIM UP ON THE 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 AND TO HATE THE BLACKENED TIN MINES,
AND THE EIGHT OF US TURNED 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 UNITE MY
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 GALWAY AND SHE WON MY HEART
WE WERE IN THE BRONX IN JUNE AND TOGETHER MADE A START
WE SURVIVIED THE GREAT DEPRESSION THOUGH WE OFTEN WE LIVED IN
AND WE HAD THREE SONS AND IN THE BEST YEARS OF LIVES.

BUT MY LOVE IS NOW AND I AM OLD AND THE CHILDREN ALL GROWN UP
AND NO MATTER THE DOCTORS 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.