Luyện nghe bài hát Christmas As I Knew It

One day near Christmas I was just a child
Mama called us together and mama tried to
She said you know the cotton crop hadn't too good this year
There's not a lot of spending and well 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 a little more pleasant
And us kids got to thinking how blessed we were
At least we were all healthy and 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 the bread
Reba decorated the tree popcorn strings before we went to bed
Mama and daddy because this Christmas was kind of lean
After all was the babies Tom and Joanne
And babies a few things

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

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

Me and Jack took a jar of coal oil nd some hickernuts we'd
We to the sharecropper's 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 you" and quickly closed the door

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

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