Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

His stretched 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 off my legs
And peel off my socks if you want to
But I'd rather you took this old from me
I hold in my pail as we speak"

And he stood looking at the innocent girl
And she at the bucket bewildered
Then he lifted the doll for the young to see
And a giant smile on his face

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

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

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

But the wind was harder
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

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

And she began to earthward
Till she landed in the nasty of town
She about the village sure to find the evil men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest of night

she fumbled for the pouch that held the puppet on her rump
Feeling quite outnumbered Esther hid
A nearby pile of lumber, where she waited till the
'Cause it would have a blunder
To succumb to a on the prowl

the morning came, she wandered through the streets
Along the chilly lake that lay 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 Esther stood and shook her head the joggers 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 the shore
suddenly she felt a tiny tugging at her toe
And the puppet she'd forgotten wrapped its
Little 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 eerie deep
And the of the laughing old man filled her ears
As she drifted away to a and motionless sleep