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 day was Christmas
Christmas Eve and the Fourth of July
We wouldn't want to 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 August
It was the big book of wishes, hopes and

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

When I was three 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 kinda freaked out and was gonna me to the hospital
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 you knock down and they bounce right back up
made 'em out of wood back then, that's how old I am
Nowadays, make 'em out of plastic
My mom says just don't make 'em like that anymore
And I says, "No Ma, don't"

Then there was the year I home
Only leave from the army Germany
To my high school sweetheart
On the day Christmas

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

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

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

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

there was the year that my mom and dad gave me my first guitar
Ah, man it was gorgeous, I got the thing
It was a like blue, kinda dark aqua blue
With a cream colored heart was a Silvertone Montgomery wards
The model was called Kentucky
And man, when I saw that 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
that guitar and I'd try to look like Elvis
Then my brother Dave me a couple of chords
Now I'm here in living room singing and talking to you
funny how things work out

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

Go buy your 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, man, it's Christmas

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

Merry Christmas,