Luyện nghe bài hát John Prine Christmas

Pretty paper, pretty of blue

Man oh man, I just love Christmas, just so darn neat
I kinda every day was Christmas
Except Christmas Eve and the of July
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 of wishes, hopes and desires

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

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
kinda freaked out and was gonna take me to the hospital
But they couldn't stop me laughing so they just left me alone
So I guess I got that Christmas in me all the time, you know?

One year, I got a wooden for Christmas
You know the things you 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 don't '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 high sweetheart
On the day Christmas

My brother Billy, who was twelve 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 pick him up
In a station wagon, him and other boys
And he'd take 'em out to some strange
And drop 'em off and he gave them this spiel
To give potential customers

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

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

Then 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 aqua blue, kinda aqua blue
With a cream colored heart was a Silvertone from Montgomery
The model was called Kentucky
And man, I saw that sitting under the tree just couldn't wait

First year so I didn't 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 me a couple of chords
Now I'm here in your living room singing and to you
It's funny how work out

whyn't you go find a stranger and extend your hand to 'em
If you see somebody like they ain't 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 shaking water ball
when you wind it up it plays
'I want you, I need you, I love ya all my heart'
'Cause after all, man, it's Christmas

Away in a manger no 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

Merry Christmas,