Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

His stretched the folds of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips hurled a dollop of murk on the
And the from the rides showed a mischievous sparkle
That flashed in his hollow eyed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And she began to plummet
Till she in the nasty part 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 Esther hid
A nearby pile of lumber, where she waited till the
'Cause it have been a blunder
To succumb to a on the prowl

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

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

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

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