Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

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

His grin stretched the folds of his pasty cheeks
And his lips hurled a dollop of on the curb
And the from the rides showed a mischievous sparkle
That flashed in his hollow 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 looking down at the innocent
And she stared at the bucket
Then he lifted the doll for the girl to see
And a giant grew on his face

She saw the doll's 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 chapel and the people mean

Esther in vain 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 the time had come to flee
She scurried the aisle toward the doorway in the distance
And out into the rainstorm where she felt she be free

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

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

And she began to earthward
Till she landed in the part of town
She glanced about the village sure to the evil men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest of night

Nervously she fumbled for the pouch that held the puppet on her
Feeling quite Esther hid behind
A pile of lumber, where she waited till the dawn
'Cause it would been a blunder
To to a hoodlum on the prowl

When the morning came, she wandered 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 her down

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

Naked now she made her way the shore
When suddenly she a tiny tugging at her toe
And the she'd forgotten wrapped its tiny
Little arms around her ankle and let her go

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