Luyện nghe bài hát John Brown

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

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

That old train out, John's ma began to shout
ev'ryone in the neighborhood
"That's my son that's about to go, he's a now, you know"
She made well sure her understood

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

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

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

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

"Oh, tell me, my darling son, tell me what done
How is it that you to be this way?"
He tried his best to talk but his mouth could move
And his mother had to turn her face

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

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

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

As he turned away to go, his mother was slow
the metal brace that helped him stand
But as he to leave, he called his mother close
And he dropped his medals down into her