Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

It was late one fall night at a fairground near
When Esther first saw the man
Who toward her and stood by her side
With a bucket 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 from the rides a mischievous sparkle
That in his hollow eyed stare

He said, "Little girl, you can chop off my
And then peel off my if you want to
But I'd rather you this old puppet 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 girl to see
And a giant smile grew on his

She saw the doll's eyes and she resist
And she thanked the man and ran to the church
And she burst the door with puppet held high
And a hush filled the chapel and the looked mean

Esther in vain to pacify the mob
grew to spat, to wrangle, then to brawl
The frenzied congregation struggled desperately to
The pretty snugly nestled deep in Esther's leather sack

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

But the wind was blowing
And her skirt began to billow, until her feet began to lift
And she above the houses and the people and the chimneys
And Esther and the doll set adrift

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

And she to plummet earthward
she landed in the nasty part of town
She glanced about the village sure to find the men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest hour of

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

When the morning came, she wandered through the
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 stood and shook her head the joggers were approaching
And she knew she had no choice left but to
As the frosty water sank its bitter teeth into her
She tried to the heavy clothing from her skin

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

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