Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

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

His stretched the folds of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips a dollop of murk on the curb
And the lights from the rides showed a sparkle
That flashed in his eyed stare

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

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

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 held high
And a hush filled the chapel and the people mean

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

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

But the wind was blowing
And her skirt began to billow, finally her feet began to lift
And she rose the houses and the people and the chimneys
And Esther and the doll set adrift

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

And she began to earthward
Till she in the nasty 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 held the puppet on her rump
quite outnumbered Esther hid behind
A nearby of lumber, where she waited till the dawn
'Cause it would have been a
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 moment, but she thought she heard a sound
It was an angry mob of joggers up to knock her down

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

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

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