Luyện nghe bài hát Esther (alternate Version)

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

His grin stretched the folds of his pasty white
And his lips hurled a of murk on the curb
And the lights from the rides showed a mischievous
That in his hollow eyed stare

He said, "Little girl, you can chop off my
And peel off my socks if you want to
But I'd you took this old puppet from me
That I in my pail as we speak"

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

She saw the doll's and she couldn't resist
And she the man quickly and ran to the church
And she burst through the with puppet held high
And a hush the chapel and the people looked mean

Esther tried in to pacify the mob
Quibble to spat, to wrangle, then to brawl
The congregation struggled desperately to fetch
The pretty puppet snugly nestled deep in leather sack

the window of the church, a storm began to rage
And knew the time had come to flee
She scurried down the aisle toward the doorway in the
And out the rainstorm where she felt she would be free

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

Floating higher over the
And the valleys and treetops flutter and glide
Soaring and turning on air
With the earth far below they'd tumble
And dive through the

And she began to plummet
Till she in the nasty part of town
She glanced about the village sure to the evil men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest hour of

Nervously she fumbled for the pouch that held the puppet on her
quite outnumbered Esther hid behind
A nearby of lumber, where she waited till the dawn
'Cause it have been a blunder
To to a hoodlum on the prowl

the morning came, she wandered through 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 stood and shook her 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 tried to the heavy clothing from her skin

Naked now she her way toward the shore
When she felt a tiny tugging at her toe
And the puppet she'd wrapped its tiny
Little arms 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 laughing old man her ears
As she drifted away to a tranquil and sleep