Luyện nghe bài hát John Prine Christmas

Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of

Man oh man, I just love Christmas, just so darn neat
I kinda wish every day was
Except Eve and the Fourth of July
We wouldn't want to miss out on the fireworks, we?

When I was a kid, we to get the Christmas catalog
From Wards in Chicago
Sometimes we'd get it as early as August
It was the big book of wishes, hopes and

My three brothers and I were
Twenty-five a piece including tax
So I'd make up a different Christmas list night
From the first of September the twenty-forth of December
Matter of fact, let me present you my Christmas credentials

When I was three years old, at least that's my mother told me
I ate an entire ornament, I ate a big red one, I it was an apple
They kinda freaked out and was gonna take me to the
But they stop me from laughing so they just left me alone
So I guess I still got that Christmas in me all the time, you

One year, I got a roly-poly for Christmas
You know the things you knock down and they bounce right up
They made 'em out of wood then, that's how old I am
Nowadays, they make 'em out of
My mom says they just make 'em like that anymore
And I says, "No Ma, don't"

Then there was the year I came
Only leave the army from Germany
To my high school sweetheart
On the day after

My brother Billy, who was twelve at the time
Had just gotten his job
So he was able to to buy some Christmas presents
For his brothers and his mom and dad out of his own

Billy had a job subscriptions for the Chicago Tribune
He told me this guy named Rocky pick him up
In a station wagon, him and other boys
And he'd take 'em out to some neighborhood
And 'em off and he gave them this whole spiel
To their potential customers

Supposedly their little brother had won a trip
To our nation's Washington DC
But he go on the trip
If his older brother wouldn't him

So if you would please buy a subscription to the Chicago
Then my little brother will be
Wow, a shyster
Some people'll do to get to the White House

Then there was the year that my mom and dad gave me my first
Ah, man it was gorgeous, I got the thing
It was a like aqua blue, kinda dark blue
With a cream colored heart was a Silvertone from Montgomery
The model was called Blue
And man, I saw that sitting under the tree just couldn't wait

First year so I know how to play it
I'd just stand in from of the mirror a string around my neck
that guitar and I'd try to look like Elvis
Then my brother Dave taught me a of chords
Now I'm here in your living room singing and to you
It's funny how things out

So-a whyn't you go find a stranger and your hand to 'em
If you see somebody looks they ain't doin' quite as well as you
Slip 'em a buck, 'specially if don't ask for spare change

Go buy your a cuckoo clock
Or a musical snow shaking ball
when you wind it up it plays
'I want you, I need you, I ya with all my heart'
'Cause all, hell man, it's Christmas

Away in a manger no for a bed
The Lord Jesus lay down His sweet head
The stars in the sky look where He lay
The little Lord asleep on the
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Hay

Christmas, everybody