Luyện nghe bài hát Christmas As I Knew It

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

I hope you won't expect a lot of Christmas
Just be thankful that is plenty to eat
That'll things a little more pleasant
And us got to thinking how really 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 a squirrel and Louise made the bread
decorated the tree with 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 need a few things

I a whistle for my brother Jack
And we disagreed 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 down
You couldn't tell that they hadn't come town

A sharecropper family across the road didn't 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 have coal oil
Let alone and oranges and such"

Me and Jack took a jar of oil nd some hickernuts we'd found
We walked to the sharecropper's 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 closed the door

We started home me and Jack
And about halfway we stopped back
And in the window at last was a light
So for one of the neighbors and for us it was a Christmas night

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