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 toward her and stood by her
With a bucket that in his hand

His grin stretched the of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips hurled a dollop of murk on the
And the lights the rides showed a mischievous sparkle
That flashed in his hollow stare

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

And he stood looking down at the innocent
And she at the bucket bewildered
Then he lifted the for the young girl to see
And a smile grew 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 and the people looked mean

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

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

But the wind was harder
And her skirt began to billow, finally her feet began to lift
And she rose above the houses and the people and the
And Esther and the doll set adrift

Floating higher over the
And the valleys and treetops flutter and glide
Soaring and turning on air
With the earth far below them they'd
And dive through the

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

When the morning came, she wandered the streets
Along the chilly lake that lay the town
At last a peaceful moment, but she thought she heard a
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 but to swim
As the water sank its bitter teeth into her hide
She tried to slide the clothing from her skin

Naked now she her way toward the shore
When she felt 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 of the laughing old man filled her ears
As she drifted to a tranquil and motionless sleep