Key: Ab major•
Verse 1
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Mama, how did he celebrate Christmas
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when y 'all first married?
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When we first married?
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Mama, he didn't have a
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great big old copper kettle
somewhere hid up in the
But I will tell you that he used to go
and he divided it in three ways
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with it.
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They couldn't have the rest of the others,
they had to,
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theirs had to last them through Christmas
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go to one of the other girls
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and say, hey, give me some of your fruit,
mine's all gone.
I want to tell you that story
Back years ago,
they didn't have too much to celebrate
with up in that country
unless you made your own.
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And my father, somewhere had him
the dandiest copper kettle
with little pipes going out all over it,
quite a woman
but she was always going into Clinch Mountain
hunting wood
and dragging it out on her back
and she came out of there one day
and stick with a copper kettle
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and she'd say Ezra said oh Ezra said look Gear Esri said,
I found the dandiest copper kettle
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And he nev er said a word.
We always had good apple butter.
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