Luyện nghe bài hát John Brown

John Brown went off to war to fight on a foreign
His mama was proud of him
He stood so straight and tall in his and all
His mama's broke out into a grin

"Oh, son, you look so fine, I'm you're a son of mine
Make me to know you own a gun
Do the captain says, lot of medals you will get
We'll put them on the wall you get home"

That old pulled out, John's ma began to shout
Tellin' ev'ryone in the
"That's my son that's to go, he's a soldier now, you know"
She made well her neighbors understood

She got a letter once in a while, her broke into a smile
She showed to the people from next door
They bragged about her son his uniform and gun
And these things you called a good old war

Then the letters ceased to come, for a long time they did not
Ceased to for about ten months or more
when letter finally came saying, "Go down and meet the train
Your son is back from the war"

She smiled and she went down, she looked up and all around
She did not see her soldier son in
all the people passed, she saw her son at last
When she did she not believe her eyes

Oh, his face was all shot up and his hand were blown
And he wore a metal brace his waist
He whispered kind of slow, in a voice she didn't
And she couldn't even recognize his

"Oh, me, my darling son, tell me what they've done
How is it you come to be this way?"
He tried his best to talk but his could hardly move
And his had to turn her face away

"Don't you remember, ma, I went off to war
You thought it was the thing I could do?
I was on the battleground, you were home, acting
You weren't there standing in my

And I thought when I was there, Lord, what am I here?
Tryin' to somebody or die tryin'
But the thing that scared me most, when my enemy came
I can see that his face looked just mine"

And I couldn't but think, through the thunder rolling and stink
I was a puppet in a play
And through the roar and smoke, this string, it broke
And a ball blew my eyes away"

As he turned away to go, his mother was acting
Seein' the metal brace that helped him
But as he turned to leave, he his mother close
And he his medals down into her hand