Luyện nghe bài hát Christmas As I Knew It

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

I hope you won't a lot of Christmas presents
be thankful that 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 and most of all we had her

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

I whittled a whistle for my Jack
And though we disagreed now and
When I gave Jack that whistle he knew I 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 from town

A sharecropper family the road didn't have it as good as us
They didn't have a light and it was way past dusk
And said, "Well I bet they don't even have coal 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 porch and set 'em down
A poor old ragged lady open the door
She up the coal oil and hickernuts and said
"I do thank you" and quickly closed the door

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

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