Luyện nghe bài hát A Healthy Normal American Boy

From Bye Bye Birdie

(Reporters questions-spoken)
Reporter 1: How does Conrad feel about going the army?
Albert: How does he feel? You ask how he feels. He's much too shy to tell you so I'll tell you how he feels. He feels and eager, strangely humble. Proud to be a plain G.I.
Rosie: He would gladly, face bullets, for he's not afraid to die.
Girls: For he's a fine abstanding patriotic, normal American boy.
(spoken): And that's why he volunteered.
Reporter 2 (spoken): Volunteered? I heard he 3 times!
(spoken):Sing!
Girls: We you Conrad, oh yes we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true. When you're not near us, we're blue/ OH Conrad we love you.
Reporter 3 (spoken): What's the picture on you and Hollywood star? Are you two engaged?
Rosie(spoken): Is he engaged? Is Conrad engaged? absolutely nothing to the rumor he's engaged.
Albert: She's a real pal., like a sister, but it doens't mean a thing. And that 18 karat diamond, it was just a ring.
Girls: For he's a fine abstanding patriotic, healthy normal boy.
Reporter 4 (spoken): Then why was her so mad?
(spoken): Sing!
Girls: We you Conrad, oh yes we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true.
Albert (spoken): Why, I'll never forget Conrad's first word's when he heard he'd been accepted into the armed forces. 'Gee Mr. Peterson' he cried eagerly, 'Do you think they'll assign me to one of those frontline trenches (army talk here I don't know what saying)
Reporter 5 (spoken): Is it true you found Conrad in a reform
& Albert: That is a lie. A lie through and through. I'll tell you where he
came from here's the and it's true.
He was born in Indo-China.
Albert: He was born in old
Rosie: Son of there.
Albert : On a thousand farm.
Rosie: poor and very hungry
Albert: From a line of planters.
Rosie: What a life to bear.
Full of genteel, southern charm!
Rosie: Then he down to Hong Kong
In evening by the river,
Rosie: To a saloon.
In the moonlight he would croon.
Rosie: That is where we him singing.
Albert: That's Conrad started singing.
Rosie: 'neath that diry Kong moon
'neath that old plantation moon.
(while Rosie and Albert "America", chorus sings the conrad theme song-it's all
one big mess)
ch: We love you COnrad, oh yes we do, we you Conrad, and we'll be true. When you're not near us, we're blue. Oh Conrad we love you.
Albert & Rosie (over chorus): Oh beautiful for spaceious skies for amber waves of grain. America, America, g-d his grace on thee.
All: For a fine abstanding patriotic, healthy normal American boy.