Christmas As I Knew It-Johnny Cash

[ti:Christmas As I Knew It] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:Christmas Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Christmas As I Knew It - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:13.80]One day near Christmas when I was just a child [00:18.06] [00:19.28]Mama called us together and mama tried to smile [00:23.10] [00:24.79]She said you know the cotton crop hasn't been too good this year [00:28.55] [00:29.56]There's just no spending money and well at least we're all here [00:34.86] [00:36.42]I hope you won't expect a lot of Christmas presents [00:38.94] [00:40.09]Just be thankful that there is plenty to eat [00:42.75] [00:43.61]That'll make things a little more pleasant [00:47.54] [00:49.60]And us kids got to thinking how really blessed we were [00:52.84] [00:53.42]At least we were all healthy and best of all we had her [00:58.80] [01:01.57]Roy cut down a pig apple tree and we drug it home jack and me [01:06.83] [01:08.82]Daddy killed a squirrel and Louise made the bread [01:11.98] [01:13.20]Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings before we went to bed [01:17.89] [01:20.62]Mama and daddy sacrificed cause this Christmas was lean [01:25.88]But after all there was the babies tom [01:28.73]And Joanne babies got have a few things [01:31.85] [01:33.92]I whittled a whistle for my brother jack and though we fought now and then [01:38.66]When I gave jack that whistle he knew I thought the world of him [01:42.82] [01:45.46]Mama made the girl's dresses out of flower sacks [01:48.43] [01:49.20]And when she ironed them down you couldn't tell that they hadn't come from town [01:54.20] [01:56.65]A sharecropped family across the road didn't have it as good as us [02:01.04] [02:02.64]They didn't even have a light and it was way past dusk [02:06.78] [02:08.73]And mama said well I bet they don't even have coal oil or beans to boil [02:15.49]A log apples cringes and such [02:18.45] [02:21.78]Me and jack took a jar of coal oil and some hick ernuts we'd found [02:25.74] [02:26.84]We walked to the sharecropper's porch and set 'em down [02:29.76] [02:31.10]A poor old ragged lady eased open the door [02:34.96] [02:35.73]She picked up the coal oil and hick ernuts and said [02:39.42]I sure do thank ye and quickly closed the door [02:42.99] [02:44.74]We started back home me and jack and about halfway we back [02:50.49] [02:53.19]We looked and in the sharecropper's window at last was a light [02:56.68] [02:58.17]So for one of the neighbors and for us it was a good Christmas night [03:03.55] [03:06.32]Christmas came and Christmas went Christmas that year was heaven sent [03:10.06] [03:11.92]Then daddy put on his gumboots [03:13.83] [03:15.25]Please follow waited for the thaw back home in dyes Arkansas