《Christmas as I Knew It》歌词

歌曲： Christmas as I Knew It

所属专辑：The Johnny Cash Family Christmas

歌手： Johnny Cash

时长： 02:48

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Christmas As I Knew It - Johnny Cash[00:00:02]

One day near Christmas when I was just a child[00:00:09]

Mama called us together and mama tried to smile[00:00:12]

She said you know[00:00:16]

The cottoncrop hasn't been too good this year[00:00:16]

There's just no spending money[00:00:20]

And well at least we're all here[00:00:23]

I hope you won't expect a lot of Christmas presents[00:00:25]

Just be thankful that there is plenty to eat[00:00:28]

That's quite a blessing[00:00:30]

That'll make things a little more pleasant[00:00:32]

And us kids got to thinking how really blessed we were[00:00:35]

At least we were all healthy and best of all we had her[00:00:39]

Roy cut down a pigapple tree[00:00:45]

And we drug it home Jack and me[00:00:47]

Daddy killed a squirrel and Louise made the bread[00:00:50]

Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings[00:00:54]

Before we went to bed[00:00:56]

Mama and daddy sacrificed 'cause this Christmas was lean[00:00:59]

But after all there was the babies[00:01:03]

Joanne and Tom babies need a few things[00:01:05]

I whittled a whistle for my brother Jack[00:01:11]

And though we fought now and then[00:01:14]

When I gave Jack that whistle[00:01:17]

He knew I thought the world of him[00:01:18]

Mama made the girl's dresses out of flower sacks[00:01:22]

And when she ironed them down[00:01:25]

You couldn't tell that they hadn't come from town[00:01:26]

A sharecropped family across the road[00:01:29]

Didn't have it as good as us[00:01:32]

They didn't even have a light[00:01:34]

And it was way past dusk[00:01:37]

Me and Jack took a jar of coaloil[00:01:41]

And some hickernuts we'd found[00:01:43]

We walked to the sharecropper's porch and set 'em down[00:01:45]

A poor old ragged lady eased open the door[00:01:50]

She picked up the coaloil and hickernuts and said[00:01:53]

I sure do thank ye and quickly closed the door[00:01:55]

We started back home me[00:02:00]

And Jack and about halfway we stopped looked back[00:02:01]

And in the sharecropper's window at last was a light[00:02:04]

So for one of the neighbors[00:02:08]

And for us it was a good Christmas night[00:02:09]

Christmas came and Christmas went Christmas[00:02:14]

That year was heaven sent[00:02:18]

Then daddy put on his gumboots[00:02:20]

Waited for the thaw back home in Dyess Arkansas[00:02:22]