Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

His stretched the folds of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips hurled a dollop of on the curb
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 peel off my socks if you want to
But I'd rather you took this old puppet me
I hold in my pail as we speak"

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

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

Esther tried in to pacify the mob
Quibble grew to spat, to wrangle, then to
The congregation struggled desperately to fetch
The pretty puppet snugly nestled deep in 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 felt she be free

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

Floating over the hills
And the valleys and treetops they'd and glide
and turning suspended on air
With the earth far below they'd tumble
And through the clouds

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

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

When the morning came, she wandered 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 joggers coming up to knock her

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

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

The waves seemed to open and swallow her
As the doll pulled her down through the eerie green
And the sound of the old man filled her ears
As she drifted away to a and motionless sleep