Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

His grin the folds of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips hurled a of murk on the curb
And the lights the rides showed a mischievous sparkle
flashed in his hollow eyed stare

He said, "Little girl, you can chop off my
And then peel off my socks if you to
But I'd rather you took old puppet from 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 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 the door with puppet held high
And a filled the chapel and the people looked mean

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

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

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

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

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

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 been a
To succumb to a hoodlum on the

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

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

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

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