Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

It was one fall night at a fairground near town
Esther first saw the Armenian man
Who toward her and stood by her side
With a bucket swung 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 flashed in his eyed stare

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

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

She saw the doll's eyes and she resist
And she thanked the man quickly and ran to the
And she burst through the with puppet held high
And a hush filled the chapel and the people looked

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

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

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

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

And she began to earthward
Till she landed in the nasty of town
She glanced about the village sure to find the men
Who rob and pillage in the hour of night

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

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

As Esther and shook her head the joggers were approaching
And she knew she had no left 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
suddenly she felt a tiny tugging at her toe
And the puppet she'd forgotten wrapped its
Little arms around her ankle and let her go

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