Luyện nghe bài hát Christmas As I Knew It

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

I hope you expect a lot of Christmas presents
Just be thankful that is plenty to eat
That'll make a little more pleasant
And us kids got to thinking how blessed we were
At least we all healthy and most of all we had her

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

I a whistle for my brother Jack
And we disagreed now and then
When I gave Jack that whistle he knew I thought the of him
Mama made the girl's dresses out of sacks
And when she ironed down
You couldn't tell that they hadn't come from

A sharecropper family across the road 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 don't even have oil
Let apples and oranges and such"

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

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

Christmas came and Christmas
Christmas that was heaven sent
And my put on his rubber boots
And the floor waiting for the thaw
Back home in Dyess