Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

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

His grin stretched the of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips hurled a of murk on the curb
And the lights from the rides a mischievous sparkle
That flashed in his hollow eyed

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

And he stood down at the innocent girl
And she stared at the bucket
Then he the doll for the young girl to see
And a smile grew on his face

She saw the doll's eyes and she couldn't
And she the man quickly and ran to the church
And she burst through the door puppet held high
And a filled the chapel and the people looked mean

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

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

But the wind was 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
and turning suspended on air
With the earth far below they'd tumble
And through the clouds

And she began to plummet
she landed in the nasty part of town
She glanced about the sure to find the evil men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest hour of

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

the morning came, she wandered through the streets
Along the lake that lay beside the town
At last a peaceful moment, but she thought she a sound
It was an angry mob of joggers coming up to knock her

As Esther stood and shook her head the joggers were
And she knew she had no left but to swim
As the frosty water sank its bitter teeth into her
She tried to the heavy clothing from her skin

now she made her way toward the shore
When suddenly she felt a tugging at her toe
And the puppet she'd forgotten wrapped its
arms around her ankle and wouldn't let her go

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