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Verse 1
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One day near Christmas
tried to smile
She said you know the cottoncrop hasn't
been too good this year
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There's just no spending money and
well at least we're all here
Just be thankful that there is plenty
to eat
That's quite a blessing that'll make
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things a little more pleasant
And us kids got to thinking
how really blessed we were
At least we were all healthy and
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best of all we had her
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bread
Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings
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before we went to bed
Mama and daddy sacrificed
cause this Christmas was lean
But after all there was the babies Tom
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and Joanne babies need a few things
I whittled a whistle for my brother Jack and
he knew I thought the world of him
Mama made the girl's dresses
out of flower sacks
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A sharecropped family across the road
didn't have it as good as us
They didn't even have a light
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And mama said well I bet they don't even have
coaloil or beans to boil
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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
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A poor old ragged lady eased
open the door
and hickernuts and said
halfway we stopped looked back
And in the sharecropper's window
at last was a light
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So for one of the neighbors and for us
it was a good Christmas night
Christmas came and Christmas went
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Then daddy put on his gumboots waited for the thaw
back home in Dyess Arkansas
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