Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

His grin stretched the folds of his pasty cheeks
And his lips hurled a dollop of on the curb
And the lights from the rides showed a mischievous
That in his hollow eyed stare

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

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

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

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

Through the window of the church, a 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 blowing
And her skirt began to billow, until finally her began to lift
And she above the houses and the people and the chimneys
And Esther and the were set adrift

Floating higher over the
And the and treetops they'd flutter and glide
and turning suspended on air
With the earth far them they'd tumble
And through the clouds

And she began to plummet
Till she landed in the nasty part of
She glanced about the village to find the evil men
Who rob and in the darkest hour of night

Nervously she fumbled for the pouch that the puppet on her rump
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 that lay the town
At last a moment, but she thought she heard a sound
It was an mob of joggers coming up to knock her down

As Esther stood and shook her head the joggers approaching
And she she had no choice left but to swim
As the water sank its bitter teeth into her hide
She to slide the heavy clothing from her skin

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

The waves seemed to and swallow her whole
As the pulled her down through the eerie green deep
And the of the laughing old man filled her ears
As she drifted away to a and motionless sleep