Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

His grin the folds of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips hurled a dollop of on the curb
And the lights from the rides a mischievous sparkle
flashed 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
That I in my pail as we speak"

And he looking down at the innocent girl
And she at the bucket bewildered
Then he the doll for the young girl to see
And a giant smile 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 with puppet held high
And a hush filled the 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 puppet snugly nestled deep in Esther's leather sack

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

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

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

And she to plummet earthward
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 held the puppet on her
Feeling outnumbered Esther hid behind
A nearby pile of lumber, where she till the dawn
'Cause it would been a blunder
To succumb to a hoodlum on the

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

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

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

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