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 AS A WAITER AND SHE WORKED AS HIS WIFE
AND THEY STRUGGLED HARD TO MAKE THOSE THE BEST YEARS OF THEIR LIVES.

BUT WORLD WORLD ONE THE GERMAN HUN LOCKED FORCES WITH THE CROWN.
AND THE BRITISH THEIR GERMANS UP WHEREVER THEY WERE FOUND.
THEY TOOK MY FATHER 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 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 OF US TURNED PADDY IN THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.

I LANDED IN IN NINETEEN TWENTY THREE
AND I GOT A JOB AND I REAL HARD TO UNITE MY FAMILY
AND ONE BE ONE I BROUGHT THEM HERE TO SHARE IN 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 DEPRESSION THOUGH WE OFTEN WE LIVED IN DIVES
AND WE HAD THREE 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 DOCTORS SAY THE DRINK I CANNOT UP
FOR A MAN'S ALONE THERE IS NO MORE HOME WITH HIS KIDS AN DARLING WIFE
AND I THEY ARE ALL BEHIND ME NOW, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIFE.