Luyện nghe bài hát John Prine Christmas

Pretty paper, pretty of blue

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

When I was a kid, we used to get the catalog
From Montgomery Wards in
we'd get it as early as late August
It was the big book of wishes, and desires

My three and I were allotted
Twenty-five bucks a including tax
So I'd make up a different list every night
From the first of September 'til the twenty-forth of
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 it was an apple
They kinda out and was gonna take me to the hospital
But they couldn't stop me from laughing so just left me alone
So I guess I still got Christmas in me all the time, you know?

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

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

My brother Billy, who was twelve at the time
Had gotten his first job
So he was to afford to buy some Christmas presents
For his brothers and his mom and dad out of his own

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

Supposedly their brother had won a free trip
To our nation's capital DC
But he go on the trip
If his older wouldn't accompany him

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

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

First year so I know how to play it
I'd stand in from of the mirror with a string around my neck
With that guitar and I'd try to like Elvis
Then my brother Dave taught me a couple of
Now I'm here in your living room and talking to you
It's funny how things out

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

Go buy your a cuckoo clock
Or a musical snow shaking water
That you wind it up it plays
'I want you, I you, I love ya with all my heart'
'Cause after all, hell man, Christmas

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

Merry Christmas,