Luyện nghe bài hát THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

I WAS BORN IN LONDON IN NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE
MY WAS A GERMAN, WITH AN IRISH GAL HIS BRIDE
HE WORKED AS A AND SHE WORKED AS HIS WIFE
AND THEY STRUGGLED HARD TO MAKE TIMES THE BEST YEARS OF THEIR LIVES.

BUT WITH WORLD WORLD ONE THE GERMAN HUN LOCKED FORCES THE CROWN.
AND THE BRITISH LOCKED THEIR GERMANS UP THEY WERE FOUND.
THEY MY GERMAN 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 HER EIGHT KIDS BACK TO HER HOME IN THE COUNTY CLAIRE
YOU'RE NOT SON NOR GERMAN NOW YOUR IRISH, SHE DECLARED.
SHE TAUGHT US TO LOVE IRELAND AND TO THE BLACKENED TIN MINES,
AND THE OF US TURNED PADDY IN THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.

I LANDED IN AMERICA IN NINETEEN TWENTY
AND I GOT A JOB AND I WORKED REAL TO UNITE MY FAMILY
AND ONE BE ONE I BROUGHT THEM 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 GALWAY AND SHE QUICKLY WON MY
WE WERE MARRIED IN THE BRONX IN AND TOGETHER MADE A START
WE SURVIVIED THE GREAT THOUGH WE OFTEN WE LIVED IN DIVES
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 WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY THE 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.