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Christmas As I Knew It chords by 
Johnny Cash 
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Key: A major•BPM: 35
Verse 1
G
D
G
D
G
One day near Christmas
C
when I was just a child
G
Mama called us together and mama
tried to smile
She said you know the cottoncrop hasn't
been too good this year
D
G
There's just no spending money and
well at least we're all here
C
I hope you won't expect a lot
G
of Christmas presents
Just be thankful that there is plenty
to eat
That's quite a blessing that'll make
C
G
things a little more pleasant
And us kids got to thinking
how really blessed we were
At least we were all healthy and
C
G
best of all we had her
D
Roy cut down a pigapple tree
G
and we drug it home Jack and me
D
Daddy killed a squirrel and Louise made the
G
bread
Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings
C
G
before we went to bed
Mama and daddy sacrificed
cause this Christmas was lean
But after all there was the babies Tom
D
G
and Joanne babies need a few things
I whittled a whistle for my brother Jack and
C
though we fought now and then
G
When I gave Jack that whistle
he knew I thought the world of him
Mama made the girl's dresses
out of flower sacks
D
And when she ironed them down you couldn't
G
tell that they hadn't come from town
C
G
A sharecropped family across the road
didn't have it as good as us
They didn't even have a light
C
and it was way past dusk
G
D
G
And mama said well I bet they don't even have
coaloil or beans to boil
C
G
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
D
G
A poor old ragged lady eased
open the door
C
She picked up the coaloil
and hickernuts and said
G
I sure do thank ye and
D
quickly closed the door
G
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
C
G
So for one of the neighbors and for us
it was a good Christmas night
Christmas came and Christmas went
D
Christmas that year was heaven sent
G
Then daddy put on his gumboots waited for the thaw
back home in Dyess Arkansas
C
G
D
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