Christmas as I Knew It

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Johnny Cash

John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music icon, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame. more »

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1963

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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 cotton crop 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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