Luyện nghe bài hát West Virginia Mine Disaster

Oh say, did you see him, it was early this
He all your houses on his way to the coal
He was tall, he was slender, and his eyes so tender
His occupation was mining, West Virginia his

It was just twelve, I was feeding the children
Ben Moseley came to bring us the news
eight is all flooded, many men are in danger
And we don't know their number, but we fear they're all

So I picked up the baby, and I left all the
To each other and to pray for their own
There's Tommy, fourteen, and there's John not much
Their own time soon will be to go down the black hole

will I say to his poor little children?
And what will I tell his dear mother at
And what will I say to my that's clear broken?
To my heart that's clear broken if my baby is

Now, if I had the money to do more than feed them
I'd give them good learning, the could be found
So when they growed up be checkers and weighers
And not spend life digging in the dark underground

Say, did you see him going, it was early this
He passed all your on his way to the coal
He was tall, he was slender, and his eyes so tender
His occupation was mining, Virginia his home