Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

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

He said, "Little girl, you can chop off my
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 looking at the innocent girl
And she at the bucket bewildered
he lifted the doll for the young girl to see
And a giant smile grew on his

She saw the eyes and she couldn't resist
And she the man quickly and ran to the church
And she burst through the door with puppet held
And a hush the chapel and the people looked mean

Esther tried in to pacify the mob
Quibble to spat, to wrangle, then to brawl
The frenzied congregation desperately to fetch
The pretty puppet snugly nestled deep in leather sack

Through the of the church, a storm began 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 where she she would be free

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

Floating over the hills
And the and treetops they'd flutter and glide
and turning suspended on air
With the earth far below them tumble
And dive through the

And she began to earthward
Till she landed in the nasty part of
She glanced about the village sure to the evil men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest hour of

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

the morning came, she wandered through the streets
Along the lake that lay beside 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 stood and her head the joggers were approaching
And she knew she had no choice left but to
As the frosty water sank its bitter into her hide
She tried to slide the clothing from her skin

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

The waves seemed to open and swallow her
As the doll pulled her through the eerie green deep
And the of the laughing old man filled her ears
As she drifted away to a tranquil and motionless