Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

His grin stretched the folds of his pasty white
And his lips a dollop of murk on the curb
And the lights from the rides showed a sparkle
That in his hollow eyed stare

He said, "Little girl, you can chop off my
And peel off my socks 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 down at the innocent girl
And she at the bucket bewildered
Then he lifted the doll for the young to see
And a giant smile grew on his

She saw the eyes and she couldn't resist
And she thanked the man and ran to the church
And she burst through the door with held high
And a filled the chapel and the people looked mean

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

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

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

Floating over the hills
And the valleys and they'd flutter and glide
and turning suspended on air
With the far below them they'd tumble
And dive through the

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

Nervously she fumbled for the that held the puppet on her rump
quite outnumbered Esther hid behind
A nearby pile of lumber, she waited till the dawn
it would have been a blunder
To succumb to a on the prowl

When the came, she wandered through the streets
Along the chilly lake that lay the town
At last a peaceful moment, but she thought she 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 tried to the heavy clothing from her skin

now she made her way toward the shore
When she felt 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 to open and swallow her whole
As the doll pulled her down through the green deep
And the sound of the laughing old man filled her
As she drifted away to a tranquil and motionless