Luyện nghe bài hát Christmas As I Knew It

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

I hope you won't a lot of Christmas presents
Just be thankful that is plenty to eat
make things a little more pleasant
And us kids got to thinking how really we were
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 and Louise made the bread
Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings we went to bed
Mama and daddy sacrificed because this Christmas was kind of
After all there was the babies Tom and
And need a few things

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

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

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

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

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