Luyện nghe bài hát Christmas As I Knew It

One day near Christmas when I was just a
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 well at least we're all

I hope you won't expect a lot of presents
Just be that there is plenty to eat
That'll make things a little more
And us kids got to thinking how blessed we were
At least we were all 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 popcorn strings we went to bed
Mama and daddy sacrificed this Christmas was kind of lean
After all was the babies Tom and Joanne
And babies need a few

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

A sharecropper family the road didn't have it as good as us
didn't even have a light and it was way past dusk
And mama said, "Well I bet they don't even have oil
Let alone apples and 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 poor old ragged lady open the door
She picked up the oil and hickernuts and said
"I sure do you" and quickly closed the door

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 and for us it was a good Christmas night

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