Luyện nghe bài hát Forefathers

They came Scandinavia, the land of midnight sun
And crossed the North Atlantic when this century was
They'd heard that in America, man was free
To live the way he to live and be who he could be

Some of them were farmers there and tilled the soil
But all they got was poverty for all earnest toil
They say one was a sailor, who sailed the wide round
Made home port, got one night, walked off the pier and drowned

My mother was of Scottish blood, it's there she was born
They brought her to in 1924
They left behind the Highlands and the heather covered
And came to find America with expectant dreams and iron wills

My dad worked the steel mills of Central Illinois
His was his jewel, his son was just his boy
For thirty years he worked the mills, and stoked the coke fed
And looked toward the day he had last turned
Sixty-five and could

And the sons become the fathers and daughters will be wives
As the torch is from hand to hand
And we struggle through our
Though the generations wander, the survives
And all of us, from to dust
We all forefathers by and by

Woman and the man wed, just after the war
And settled in this river town and three fine sons she bore
One a lawyer and one fine pictures drew
One this lonely soul
Who sits here now and sings this to you

And the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be
As the torch is passed hand to hand
And we struggle through our
Though the generations wander, the lineage
And all of us, from to dust
We all forefathers by and by

By and by
By and by