Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

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

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

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

She saw the eyes and she couldn't resist
And she thanked the man quickly and ran to the
And she burst through the door with puppet held
And a hush filled the 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 puppet snugly nestled deep in Esther's leather sack

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

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

Floating higher the hills
And the valleys and they'd flutter and glide
Soaring and suspended on air
the earth far below them they'd tumble
And through the clouds

And she to plummet earthward
Till she landed in the nasty of town
She about the village sure to find the evil men
Who rob and in the darkest hour of night

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

When the came, she wandered through the streets
Along the chilly lake that lay the town
At last a moment, but she thought she heard a sound
It was an angry mob of coming up to knock her down

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

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

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