Luyện nghe bài hát Christmas As I Knew It

One day Christmas when I was just a child
Mama called us together and mama tried to
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 you won't expect a lot of Christmas presents
Just be thankful there is plenty to eat
That'll make things a little pleasant
And us kids got to how really blessed we were
At least we were all healthy and of all we had her

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

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

A sharecropper family across the road have it as good as us
They 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 a jar of coal oil nd some hickernuts we'd found
We walked to the sharecropper's and set 'em down
A poor old ragged lady eased the door
She up the coal oil and hickernuts and said
"I do thank you" and quickly closed the door

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

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