Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

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

His grin stretched the folds of his white cheeks
And his hurled a dollop of murk on the curb
And the from the rides showed a mischievous sparkle
That flashed in his eyed stare

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

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

She saw the doll's and she couldn't resist
And she the man quickly and ran to the church
And she burst through the door with puppet high
And a filled the chapel and the people looked mean

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

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

But the wind was harder
And her skirt began to billow, 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 they'd flutter and glide
and turning suspended on air
With the far below them they'd tumble
And dive the clouds

And she to plummet earthward
she landed in the nasty part of town
She glanced about the sure to find 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 quite outnumbered hid behind
A nearby pile of lumber, where she waited the dawn
'Cause it would have a blunder
To to a hoodlum on the prowl

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

As Esther stood and shook her head the joggers approaching
And she knew she had no choice but to swim
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
suddenly she felt a tiny tugging at her toe
And the puppet she'd forgotten its tiny
Little arms her ankle and wouldn't let her go

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