Luyện nghe bài hát John Prine Christmas

Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of

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

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

My brothers and I were allotted
Twenty-five bucks a including tax
So I'd make up a different Christmas list every
the first 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 entire ornament, I ate a big red one, I it was an apple
kinda freaked out and was gonna take me to the hospital
But they couldn't stop me from laughing so they just me alone
So I guess I still got that Christmas in me all the time, you

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

Then was the year I came home
Only from the army from Germany
To marry my 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 some presents
For his and his mom and dad out of his own pocket

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

Supposedly their little brother had won a trip
To our nation's Washington DC
But he couldn't go on the
If his older wouldn't 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 anything to get to the White

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, kinda dark blue
With a cream colored was a Silvertone from Montgomery wards
The model was Kentucky Blue
And man, when I saw sitting 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 with a string around my
With that and I'd try to look like Elvis
Then my Dave taught me a couple of chords
Now I'm here in your living singing and talking to you
It's 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 ain't quite as well as you
Slip 'em a buck, 'specially if they don't ask for spare

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

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

Merry Christmas,