Luyện nghe bài hát Christmas As I Knew It

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christmas and Christmas went
Christmas year was heaven sent
And my daddy put on his rubber
And paced the waiting for the thaw
Back home in Arkansas