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 [00:16.59]And I was just a child [00:19.44]Mama called us together [00:22.18]And mama tried to smile [00:25.00]She said you know the cottoncrop [00:26.99]Hasn't been too good this year [00:29.73]There's just no spending money [00:32.93]Well at least we're all here [00:36.58]I hope you won't expect a lot of Christmas presents [00:40.24]Just be thankful that there is plenty to eat [00:43.76]That's quite a blessing [00:46.02]That'll make things a little more pleasant [00:49.73]And us kids got to thinking [00:51.38]How really blessed we were [00:53.41]At least we were all healthy [00:56.01]And best of all we had her [01:01.66]Roy cut down a pigapple tree [01:04.63]And we drag it home Jack and me [01:08.98]Daddy killed a squirrel [01:10.90]And Louise made the bread [01:13.32]Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings [01:16.45]Before we went to bed [01:20.81]Mama and daddy sacrificed [01:24.08]'Cause this Christmas was lean [01:25.59]But after all there was the babies Tom and Joanne [01:30.73]Babies need a few things [01:34.00]I whittled a whistle for my brother Jack [01:36.54]And we fought now and then [01:38.82]When I gave Jack that whistle [01:41.33]He knew I thought the world of him [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 [01:51.76]You couldn't tell that they hadn't come from town [01:56.75]A sharecropped family across the road [01:59.80]Didn't have it as good as us [02:02.86]They didn't even have a light [02:05.49]And it was way past dusk [02:08.57]And mama said [02:10.55]Well I bet they don't even have coaloil [02:13.64]Or beans to boil [02:15.56]A lot of apples oranges and such [02:22.01]Me and Jack took a jar of coaloil [02:24.54]And some hickernuts we'd found [02:26.91]We walked to the sharecropper's porch [02:29.32]And set 'em down [02:31.26]A poor old ragged lady [02:33.55]Eased open the door [02:35.86]She picked up the coaloil [02:37.69]And hickernuts and said [02:39.50]I sure do thank you [02:41.26]And quickly closed the door [02:45.31]We started back home me and Jack [02:47.16]And about halfway we stopped looked back [02:53.34]And in the sharecropper's window [02:55.60]At last was a light [02:58.31]So for one of the neighbors and for us [03:01.81]It was a good Christmas night [03:06.30]Christmas came Christmas went [03:08.36]Christmas that year was heaven sent [03:12.13]Then daddy put on his gumboots [03:15.47]Waited for the thaw [03:17.92]Back home in Dyess Arkansas