Luyện nghe bài hát John Prine Christmas

Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of

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

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

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

When I was three years old, at least that's my mother told me
I ate an ornament, I ate a big red one, I thought it was an apple
kinda freaked out and was gonna take me to the hospital
But they stop me from laughing so they just left me alone
So I guess I still got that Christmas in me all the time, you

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

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

My little Billy, who was twelve at the time
Had just his first 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 for the Chicago Tribune
He told me guy named Rocky 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 them this spiel
To give potential customers

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

So if you please buy a subscription to the Chicago Tribune
Then my little will be happy
Wow, what a
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 got the thing
It was a aqua blue, kinda dark aqua blue
With a cream colored heart was a from Montgomery wards
The model was Kentucky Blue
And man, when I saw that sitting the tree just couldn't wait

year so I didn't 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 taught me a couple of chords
Now I'm in your living room singing and talking to you
funny how things work out

So-a whyn't you go find a stranger and extend your to 'em
If you see somebody looks they ain't 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 snow shaking water ball
That when you wind it up it
'I want you, I need you, I love ya all my heart'
'Cause after all, hell man, Christmas

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

Christmas, everybody