Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

It was late one fall night at a near town
When Esther saw the Armenian man
Who groveled toward her and stood by her
With a bucket that swung in his

His grin stretched the folds of his white cheeks
And his lips hurled a dollop of murk on the
And the lights the rides showed a mischievous sparkle
That flashed in his hollow eyed

He said, "Little girl, you can off my legs
And then peel off my if you want to
But I'd rather you this old puppet from me
That I in my pail as we speak"

And he stood looking down at the innocent
And she at the bucket bewildered
Then he lifted the doll for the young to see
And a giant smile grew on his

She saw the doll's and she couldn't resist
And she thanked the man and ran to the church
And she burst through the door with puppet held
And a hush filled the chapel and the people looked

Esther in vain to pacify the mob
grew to spat, to wrangle, then to brawl
The frenzied congregation desperately to fetch
The pretty puppet snugly nestled in Esther's leather sack

Through the window of the church, a began to rage
And Esther knew the time had to flee
She scurried down the aisle toward the in the distance
And out the rainstorm where she felt she would be free

But the was blowing harder
And her skirt began to billow, until finally her began to lift
And she rose above the houses and the and the chimneys
And Esther and the doll set adrift

Floating higher the hills
And the valleys and treetops flutter and glide
Soaring and turning on air
With the earth far them they'd tumble
And dive the clouds

And she began to plummet
Till she landed in the part of town
She about the village sure to find the evil men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest of night

Nervously she fumbled for the pouch that held the on her rump
Feeling quite Esther hid behind
A nearby pile of lumber, where she waited till the
it would have been a blunder
To succumb to a hoodlum on the

When the morning came, she wandered through the
Along the chilly lake that lay the town
At last a peaceful moment, but she she heard a sound
It was an angry mob of coming up to knock her down

As Esther and shook her head the joggers were approaching
And she knew she had no choice left but to
As the frosty water its bitter teeth into her hide
She tried to slide the heavy from her skin

Naked now she her way toward the shore
When suddenly she a tiny tugging at her toe
And the puppet she'd wrapped its tiny
Little around her ankle and wouldn't let her go

The waves seemed to open and her whole
As the doll pulled her down the eerie green deep
And the sound of the laughing old man her ears
As she drifted away to a tranquil and sleep