Luyện nghe bài hát John Prine Christmas

Pretty paper, pretty of blue

Man oh man, I just love Christmas, it's so darn neat
I kinda wish day was Christmas
Except Eve and the Fourth of July
We wouldn't to miss out on the fireworks, would we?

When I was a kid, we to get the Christmas catalog
Montgomery Wards in Chicago
Sometimes we'd get it as early as late
It was the big of wishes, hopes and desires

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

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

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

Then there was the year I came
Only leave from the from Germany
To marry my high sweetheart
On the day after

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

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

their little brother had won a free trip
To our capital Washington DC
But he couldn't go on the
If his brother wouldn't accompany him

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

Then there was the year that my mom and dad gave me my guitar
Ah, man it was gorgeous, I still got the
It was a like aqua blue, kinda aqua blue
With a cream colored heart was a Silvertone from wards
The was called Kentucky Blue
And man, when I saw that sitting under the tree just wait

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

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

Go buy honey a cuckoo clock
Or a musical snow shaking ball
That you wind it up it plays
'I want you, I need you, I love ya with all my
'Cause after all, hell man, it's

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

Christmas, everybody