Luyện nghe bài hát Christmas As I Knew It

One day Christmas when I was just a child
called us together and mama tried to smile
She said you know the crop hadn't been too good this year
There's not a lot of spending money and at least we're all here

I you won't expect a lot of Christmas presents
Just be thankful there is plenty to eat
That'll make things a little pleasant
And us kids got to thinking how really blessed we
At least we all healthy and most of all we had her

Roy cut down a pine oak and we drug it home Jack and me
Daddy killed a squirrel and Louise the bread
Reba decorated the tree with popcorn before we went to bed
Mama and daddy sacrificed this Christmas was kind of lean
all there was the babies Tom and Joanne
And babies need a few

I whittled a whistle for my Jack
And though we now and then
When I gave Jack that whistle he I thought the world of him
Mama the girl's dresses out of flower sacks
And when she ironed down
You couldn't tell that they hadn't come town

A sharecropper family the road didn't have it as good as us
They didn't even a light and it was way past dusk
And mama said, "Well I bet they even have coal oil
Let apples and oranges and such"

Me and Jack took a jar of coal oil nd some hickernuts found
We walked to the porch and set 'em down
A old ragged lady eased open the door
She up the coal oil and hickernuts and said
"I sure do thank you" and quickly the door

We started home me and Jack
And about halfway we stopped looked
And in the sharecropper's at last was a light
So for one of the neighbors and for us it was a good Christmas

came and Christmas went
Christmas year was heaven sent
And my daddy put on his boots
And paced the floor waiting for the
home in Dyess Arkansas