Christmas as I Knew It-Johnny Cash

[ti:Christmas As I Knew It (Mono Version)] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:The Classic Albums Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Christmas as I Knew It - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:13.95]One day near Christmas [00:15.70] [00:16.59]And I was just a child [00:18.15] [00:19.44]Mama called us together [00:20.82] [00:22.18]And mama tried to smile [00:23.70] [00:25.00]She said you know the cottoncrop [00:26.99]Hasn't been too good this year [00:28.79] [00:29.73]There's just no spending money [00:31.38] [00:32.93]Well at least we're all here [00:35.20] [00:36.58]I hope you won't expect a lot of Christmas presents [00:39.45] [00:40.24]Just be thankful that there is plenty to eat [00:42.82] [00:43.76]That's quite a blessing [00:44.94] [00:46.02]That'll make things a little more pleasant [00:47.81] [00:49.73]And us kids got to thinking [00:51.38]How really blessed we were [00:52.86] [00:53.41]At least we were all healthy [00:56.01]And best of all we had her [00:58.69] [01:01.66]Roy cut down a pigapple tree [01:03.93] [01:04.63]And we drag it home Jack and me [01:06.90] [01:08.98]Daddy killed a squirrel [01:10.21] [01:10.90]And Louise made the bread [01:12.28] [01:13.32]Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings [01:16.45]Before we went to bed [01:18.03] [01:20.81]Mama and daddy sacrificed [01:23.17] [01:24.08]'Cause this Christmas was lean [01:25.59]But after all there was the babies Tom and Joanne [01:29.65] [01:30.73]Babies need a few things [01:32.35] [01:34.00]I whittled a whistle for my brother Jack [01:36.54]And we fought now and then [01:38.17] [01:38.82]When I gave Jack that whistle [01:40.53] [01:41.33]He knew I thought the world of him [01:43.24] [01:45.52]Mama made the girl's dresses [01:47.55]Out of flower sacks [01:49.12]And when she ironed them down [01:50.91] [01:51.76]You couldn't tell that they hadn't come from town [01:54.23] [01:56.75]A sharecropped family across the road [01:59.19] [01:59.80]Didn't have it as good as us [02:01.53] [02:02.86]They didn't even have a light [02:04.45] [02:05.49]And it was way past dusk [02:07.23] [02:08.57]And mama said [02:09.61] [02:10.55]Well I bet they don't even have coaloil [02:12.70] [02:13.64]Or beans to boil [02:15.56]A lot of apples oranges and such [02:18.98] [02:22.01]Me and Jack took a jar of coaloil [02:24.54]And some hickernuts we'd found [02:26.03] [02:26.91]We walked to the sharecropper's porch [02:29.32]And set 'em down [02:30.50] [02:31.26]A poor old ragged lady [02:33.00] [02:33.55]Eased open the door [02:34.89] [02:35.86]She picked up the coaloil [02:37.69]And hickernuts and said [02:38.92] [02:39.50]I sure do thank you [02:40.73] [02:41.26]And quickly closed the door [02:43.28] [02:45.31]We started back home me and Jack [02:47.16]And about halfway we stopped looked back [02:50.39] [02:53.34]And in the sharecropper's window [02:55.60]At last was a light [02:57.20] [02:58.31]So for one of the neighbors and for us [03:01.81]It was a good Christmas night [03:03.44] [03:06.30]Christmas came Christmas went [03:08.36]Christmas that year was heaven sent [03:10.49] [03:12.13]Then daddy put on his gumboots [03:14.38] [03:15.47]Waited for the thaw [03:16.69] [03:17.92]Back home in Dyess Arkansas