Christmas As I Knew It-Johnny Cash

[ti:Christmas As I Knew It(Mono Version)] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:The Christmas Spirit] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Christmas As I Knew It - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:13.97]One day near Christmas when I was just a child [00:17.93] [00:19.41]Mama called us together and mama tried to smile [00:23.12] [00:25.01]She said you know the cotton crop hasn't been too good this year [00:28.60] [00:29.66]There's just no spending money and well at least we're all here [00:34.98] [00:36.44]I hope you won't expect a lot of Christmas presents [00:38.93] [00:40.10]Just be thankful that there is plenty to eat [00:42.51] [00:43.76]That's quite a blessing that'll make things a little more pleasant [00:47.60] [00:49.69]And us kids got to thinking how really blessed we were [00:52.89] [00:53.64]At least we were all healthy and best of all we had her [00:58.44] [01:01.69]Roy cut down a pigapple tree and we drug it home [01:05.48] [01:05.99]Jack and me [01:06.65] [01:08.99]Daddy killed a squirrel and Louise made the bread [01:11.96] [01:13.33]Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings before we went to bed [01:17.63] [01:20.71]Mama and daddy sacrificed 'cause this Christmas was lean [01:25.50]But after all there was the babies [01:28.36]Tom and Joanne babies need a few things [01:31.82] [01:33.98]I whittled a whistle for my brother [01:35.52]Jack and though we fought now and then [01:37.93] [01:38.83]When I gave Jack that whistle he knew [01:41.69]I thought the world of him [01:42.84] [01:45.55]Mama made the girl's dresses out of flower sacks [01:49.06]And when she ironed them down you [01:51.84]Couldn't tell that they hadn't come from town [01:54.14] [01:56.74]A sharecropped family across the road didn't have it as good as us [02:01.33] [02:02.69]They didn't even have a light and it was way past dusk [02:06.83] [02:08.58]And mama said well I bet they don't even [02:11.83]Have coaloil or beans to boil [02:14.84] [02:15.54]A log apples cranges and such [02:18.60] [02:22.04]Me and Jack took a jar of coaloil hickernuts we'd found [02:25.75] [02:27.02]We walked to the sharecropper's porch and set down [02:29.86] [02:30.98]A poor old ragged lady eased open the door [02:34.59] [02:35.86]She picked up the coaloil and hickernuts and said [02:38.63] [02:39.33]I sure do thank ye and quickly closed the door [02:43.13] [02:45.08]We started back home me and [02:46.69]Jack and about halfway we stopped looked back [02:50.06] [02:53.34]And in the sharecropper's window at last was a light [02:56.93] [02:58.27]So for one of the neighbors and for us [03:01.01] [03:01.87]It was a good Christmas night [03:03.34] [03:06.29]Christmas came and Christmas went Christmas [03:08.63]That year was heaven sent [03:10.19] [03:11.76]Then daddy put on his gumboots waited for the thaw back home [03:18.43] [03:19.84]In Dyess Arkansas