Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

It was late one fall night at a near town
When Esther saw the Armenian man
Who groveled toward her and by her side
a bucket that swung 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 then peel off my socks if you to
But I'd rather you took this old from me
That I hold in my as we speak"

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

She saw the doll's and she couldn't resist
And she thanked the man and ran to the church
And she burst through the with puppet held high
And a hush filled the chapel and the people mean

Esther tried in to pacify the mob
Quibble grew to spat, to wrangle, then to
The frenzied congregation desperately to fetch
The pretty puppet nestled deep in Esther's leather sack

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

But the wind was blowing
And her skirt to billow, until finally her feet began to lift
And she rose above the houses and the and the chimneys
And and the doll 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 below them they'd
And dive the clouds

And she began to plummet
Till she landed in the nasty part of
She glanced about the sure to find the evil men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest hour of

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

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

As Esther 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 clothing from her skin

now she made her way toward the shore
When suddenly she felt a tugging at her toe
And the she'd forgotten wrapped its tiny
Little arms around her and wouldn't let her go

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