Christmas As I Knew It-Johnny Cash

[ti:Christmas As I Knew It] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:The Classic Christmas Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Christmas As I Knew It - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:09.06]One day near Christmas when I was just a child [00:11.57] [00:12.48]Mama called us together and mama tried to smile [00:15.48] [00:16.19]She said you know [00:16.89]The cottoncrop hasn't been too good this year [00:19.16] [00:20.16]There's just no spending money [00:21.87] [00:23.00]And well at least we're all here [00:24.61] [00:25.26]I hope you won't expect a lot of Christmas presents [00:27.77] [00:28.61]Just be thankful that there is plenty to eat [00:30.14]That's quite a blessing [00:31.16] [00:32.18]That'll make things a little more pleasant [00:33.70] [00:35.73]And us kids got to thinking how really blessed we were [00:38.73] [00:39.63]At least we were all healthy and best of all we had her [00:43.78] [00:45.17]Roy cut down a pigapple tree [00:46.96] [00:47.95]And we drug it home Jack and me [00:50.20] [00:50.74]Daddy killed a squirrel and Louise made the bread [00:53.53] [00:54.64]Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings [00:56.78]Before we went to bed [00:58.07] [00:59.81]Mama and daddy sacrificed 'cause this Christmas was lean [01:02.86] [01:03.86]But after all there was the babies [01:05.84]Joanne and Tom babies need a few things [01:10.00] [01:11.75]I whittled a whistle for my brother Jack [01:14.78]And though we fought now and then [01:16.39] [01:17.36]When I gave Jack that whistle [01:18.86]He knew I thought the world of him [01:20.42] [01:22.17]Mama made the girl's dresses out of flower sacks [01:24.19] [01:25.22]And when she ironed them down [01:26.88]You couldn't tell that they hadn't come from town [01:28.68] [01:29.71]A sharecropped family across the road [01:32.06]Didn't have it as good as us [01:34.85]They didn't even have a light [01:36.22] [01:37.56]And it was way past dusk [01:39.06] [01:41.24]Me and Jack took a jar of coaloil [01:43.25] [01:43.79]And some hickernuts we'd found [01:45.26] [01:45.83]We walked to the sharecropper's porch and set 'em down [01:48.81] [01:50.32]A poor old ragged lady eased open the door [01:53.10]She picked up the coaloil and hickernuts and said [01:55.74]I sure do thank ye and quickly closed the door [01:58.94] [02:00.33]We started back home me [02:01.76]And Jack and about halfway we stopped looked back [02:04.17] [02:04.98]And in the sharecropper's window at last was a light [02:07.57] [02:08.36]So for one of the neighbors [02:09.74]And for us it was a good Christmas night [02:13.26] [02:14.58]Christmas came and Christmas went Christmas [02:18.49]That year was heaven sent [02:19.50] [02:20.82]Then daddy put on his gumboots [02:22.13] [02:22.70]Waited for the thaw back home in Dyess Arkansas