Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

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

His grin stretched the of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips hurled a dollop of murk on the
And the lights from the showed a mischievous sparkle
That flashed in his eyed 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 hold in my as we speak"

And he stood looking down at the girl
And she stared at the bewildered
he lifted 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 the man quickly and ran to the church
And she burst through the door with puppet held
And a hush the chapel and the people looked mean

Esther tried in vain to the mob
grew to spat, to wrangle, then to brawl
The frenzied congregation struggled to fetch
The pretty puppet snugly deep in Esther's leather sack

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

But the was blowing harder
And her began 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

Floating higher over the
And the valleys and treetops they'd flutter and
Soaring and turning on air
the earth far below them they'd tumble
And dive the clouds

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

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

When the morning came, she wandered through the
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 knock her

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

Naked now she made her way toward the
suddenly she felt a tiny tugging at her toe
And the puppet she'd forgotten its tiny
Little around her ankle and wouldn't let her go

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