Luyện nghe bài hát Forefathers

They came Scandinavia, the land of midnight sun
And crossed the North Atlantic when century was young
heard that in America, every man was free
To live the way he to live and be who he could be

Some of them farmers there and tilled the frozen soil
But all they got was poverty for all their toil
They say one was a sailor, who sailed the world round
home port, got drunk one night, walked off the pier and drowned

My was of Scottish blood, it's there that she was born
brought her to America in 1924
They left behind the Highlands and the covered hills
And came to find America with broad dreams and iron wills

My grand dad worked the steel mills of Illinois
His daughter was his jewel, his son was his boy
For thirty he worked the mills, and stoked the coke fed fires
And toward the day when he had last turned
Sixty-five and retire

And the sons become the fathers and daughters will be wives
As the torch is passed from to hand
And we struggle our lives
Though the generations wander, the lineage
And all of us, from to dust
We all become by and by

Woman and the man were wed, after the war
And they settled in this river town and three sons she bore
One a lawyer and one fine pictures drew
One became lonely soul
Who sits here now and sings this to you

And the become the fathers and their daughters will be wives
As the torch is from hand to hand
And we struggle our lives
Though the generations wander, the lineage
And all of us, dust to dust
We all become by and by

By and by
By and by