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Johnny Cash - Christmas As I Knew It Lyrics

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  • One day near Christmas when I was just a child
  • Mama called us together and mama tried to smile
  • She said you know the cottoncrop hasn't been too good this year
  • There's just no spending money and well at least we're all here
  • I hope you won't expect a lot of Christmas presents
  • Just be thankful that there is plenty to eat
  • That's quite a blessing that'll make things a little more pleasant
  • And us kids got to thinking how really blessed we were
  • At least we were all healthy and best of all we had her
  • Roy cut down a pigapple tree and we drug it home Jack and me
  • Daddy killed a squirrel and Louise made the bread
  • Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings before we went to bed
  • Mama and daddy sacrificed cause this Christmas was lean
  • But after all there was the babies Tom and Joanne babies need a few things
  • I whittled a whistle for my brother Jack and though we fought now and then
  • When I gave Jack that whistle he knew I thought the world of him
  • Mama made the girl's dresses out of flower sacks
  • And when she ironed them down you couldn't tell that they hadn't come from town
  • A sharecropped family across the road didn't have it as good as us
  • They didn't even have a light and it was way past dusk
  • And mama said well I bet they don't even have coaloil or beans to boil
  • A log apples cranges and such
  • Me and Jack took a jar of coaloil nd some hickernuts we'd found
  • We walked to the sharecropper's porch and set 'em down
  • A poor old ragged lady eased open the door
  • She picked up the coaloil and hickernuts and said
  • I sure do thank ye and quickly closed the door
  • We started back home me and Jack and about halfway we stopped looked back
  • And in the sharecropper's window at last was a light
  • So for one of the neighbors and for us it was a good Christmas night
  • Christmas came and Christmas went Christmas that year was heaven sent
  • Then daddy put on his gumboots waited for the thaw back home in Dyess Arkansas

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