Luyện nghe bài hát John Prine Christmas

Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of

Man oh man, I just love Christmas, it's so darn neat
I kinda wish day was Christmas
Christmas Eve and the Fourth of July
We want to miss out on the fireworks, would we?

I was a kid, we used to get the Christmas catalog
From Wards in Chicago
Sometimes get it as early as late August
It was the big book of wishes, and desires

My three brothers and I allotted
Twenty-five bucks a including tax
So I'd make up a different list every night
From the first of 'til the twenty-forth of December
Matter of fact, let me present you with my Christmas

When I was three years old, at least that's my mother told me
I ate an entire ornament, I ate a big red one, I thought it was an
They kinda freaked out and was gonna take me to the
But couldn't stop me from laughing so they just left me alone
So I guess I still got Christmas in me all the time, you know?

One year, I got a wooden roly-poly for
You know the things you knock and they bounce right back up
They made 'em out of wood then, that's how old I am
Nowadays, they 'em out of plastic
My mom says they just don't 'em like that anymore
And I says, "No Ma, don't"

there was the year I came home
Only leave from the army from
To my high school sweetheart
On the day after

My little Billy, who was twelve at the time
Had just his first job
So he was able to afford to buy some presents
For his and his mom and dad out of his own pocket

Billy had a job selling for the Chicago Tribune
He told me this guy named Rocky would him up
In a station wagon, him and other boys
And he'd 'em out to some strange neighborhood
And drop 'em off and he them this whole spiel
To their potential customers

their little brother had won a free trip
To our nation's Washington DC
But he go on the trip
If his older brother accompany him

So if you would please buy a subscription to the Tribune
my little brother will be happy
Wow, a shyster
Some people'll do to get to the White House

Then there was the year that my mom and dad me my first guitar
Ah, man it was gorgeous, I got the thing
It was a like aqua blue, dark aqua blue
With a cream colored heart was a Silvertone from Montgomery
The model was Kentucky Blue
And man, when I saw that under the tree just couldn't wait

First year so I didn't how to play it
I'd just stand in from of the mirror a string around my neck
With that and I'd try to look like Elvis
Then my brother Dave taught me a of chords
Now I'm here in your living singing and talking to you
funny how things work out

So-a whyn't you go a stranger and extend your hand to 'em
If you see somebody looks like they doin' quite as well as you
Slip 'em a buck, 'specially if don't ask for spare change

Go buy your honey a cuckoo
Or a musical snow water ball
That when you wind it up it
'I you, I need you, I love ya with all my heart'
after all, hell man, it's Christmas

Away in a manger no for a bed
The little Lord lay down His sweet head
The stars in the sky look down He lay
The little Lord asleep on the
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Hay

Christmas, everybody