Christmas As I Knew It

Christmas As I Knew It easy guitar chords by Johnny Cash

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  • Verse 1

    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 present

    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 

    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 

    sharecropped fam
    ily 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 neigh
    bors and for 
    us 

    it was a good 
    Christmas night 

    Christmas 
    came and Christmas 
    went 

    Christmas 
    that year was heaven 
    sen

    Then 
    daddy put 
    on his 
    gumboots waited for the thaw 

    back home 
    in 
    Dyess Arkansas 


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