Christmas As I Knew It-Johnny Cash

[ti:Christmas As I Knew It] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:Christmas With Johnny Cash] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.65]One day near christmas when i was just a child [00:05.22]Mama called us together and mama tried to smile [00:08.99] [00:10.68]She said you know the cottoncrop hasn't been too good this year [00:13.57] [00:14.69]There's just no spending money and well at least we're all here [00:19.51] [00:20.68]I hope you won't expect a lot of christmas presents [00:22.94] [00:23.92]Just be thankful that there is plenty to eat [00:25.89] [00:27.38]That'll make things a little more pleasant [00:28.94] [00:30.29]And us kids got to thinking how really blessed we were [00:32.73] [00:33.68]At least we were all healthy and best of all we had her [00:38.31] [00:40.94]Roy cut down a pigapple tree and we drug it home jack and me [00:44.26] [00:46.77]Daddy killed a squirrel and louise made the bread [00:49.53] [00:50.41]Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings before we went to bed [00:54.93] [00:57.28]Mama and daddy sacrificed cause this christmas was lean [01:01.37] [01:03.93]But after all there was the babies tom [01:05.74]And joanne babies got have a few things [01:10.67] [01:14.53]I whittled a whistle for my brother jack and though we fought now and then [01:19.60]When i gave jack that whistle he knew i thought the world of him [01:22.49] [01:24.55]Mama made the girl's dresses out of flower sacks [01:27.64]And when she ironed them down you couldn't tell that they hadn't come from town [01:32.71] [01:34.86]A sharecropped family across the road didn't have it as good as us [01:38.41] [01:39.79]They didn't even have a light and it was way past dusk [01:43.32] [01:45.44]And mama said well i bet they don't even have coaloil or beans to boil [01:47.62] [01:48.31]A log apples cranges and such [01:51.06] [01:53.74]Me and jack took a jar of coaloil nd some hickernuts we'd found [01:57.01] [01:57.97]We walked to the sharecropper's porch and set 'em down [02:00.61] [02:02.08]A poor old ragged lady eased open the door [02:04.54] [02:05.37]She picked up the coaloil and hickernuts and said [02:07.93]I sure do thank ye and quickly closed the door [02:10.50] [02:12.80]We started back home me and jack and about halfway we back [02:17.17] [02:19.19]We looked and in the sharecropper's window at last was a light [02:23.69] [02:25.81]So for one of the neighbors and for us it was a good christmas night [02:29.26] [02:30.95]Christmas came and christmas went christmas that year was heaven sent [02:36.60] [02:38.76]Then daddy put on his gumboots [02:42.61]Please follow waited for the thaw back home in dyess arkansas [02:50.06] [02:50.75]Christmas As I Knew It - Johnny Cash [02:54.38]