Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

His stretched the folds of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips hurled a dollop of murk on the
And the lights from the rides showed a mischievous
That in his hollow eyed stare

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

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

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 high
And a hush filled the chapel and the people mean

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

now she made her way toward the shore
When suddenly she a tiny tugging at her toe
And the puppet forgotten 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 through the eerie green
And the sound of the old man filled her ears
As she drifted to a tranquil and motionless sleep