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 MAKE THOSE TIMES THE YEARS OF THEIR LIVES.

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

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

I IN AMERICA 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 WERE THE BEST OF OUR LIVES.

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

BUT MY LOVE IS 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 WITH HIS KIDS AN WIFE
AND I THEY ARE ALL BEHIND ME NOW, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIFE.