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 been too good this
There's not a lot of spending and well at least we're all here

I hope you won't a lot of Christmas presents
Just be that there is plenty to eat
That'll make things a more pleasant
And us kids got to thinking how really we were
At we were all healthy and most of all we had her

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

I whittled a for my brother 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 ironed them
You couldn't tell that they hadn't come from

A sharecropper across the road 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 they even have coal oil
Let apples and oranges and such"

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

We back 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 and Christmas went
Christmas year was heaven sent
And my daddy put on his rubber
And the floor waiting for the thaw
Back in Dyess Arkansas