John Prine Christmas lyrics
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Artist: John Prine Album: John Prine Christmas
Lyrics
Pretty paper Pretty ribbons of blue
(Spoken) man oh man I just love christmas It's just so darn neat I kinda wish every day was christmas Except christmas eve and the fourth of july We wouldn't want to miss out on the fireworks, would we? When I was a kid, we used to get the christmas catalog from montgomery wards in chicago Sometimes we'd get it as early as late august It was the big book of wishes, hopes and desires My three brothers and I were allotted twenty-five bucks a piece, including tax So I'd make up a different christmas list every night From the first of september 'til the twenty-forth of december Matter of fact, let me present you with my christmas credentials When I was three years old, at least that's what my mother told me I ate an entire ornament. I ate a big red one, I thought it was an apple They kinda freaked out and was gonna take me to the hospital But they couldn't stop me from laughing so they just left me alone So I guess I still got that christmas in me all the time, you know?
One year, I got a wooden roly-poly for christmas You know the things you knock down and they bounce right back up They made 'em out of wood back then, that's how old I am Nowadays, they make 'em out of plastic My mom says "they just don't make 'em like that anymore". and I says, "no ma they don't"
Then there was the year I came home only eave from the army From germany to marry my highschool sweetheart on the day after christmas My little brother billy, who was twelve at the time Had just gotten his first job so he was able to afford to buy some christmas presents For his brothers and his mom and dad out of his own pocket Billy had a job selling subscriptions for the chicago tribune He told me this guy named rocky would pick him up in a station wagon Him and some other boys, and he'd take 'em out to some strange neighborhood And drop 'em off and he gave them this whole spiel to give their potential customers Supposedly their little brother had won a free trip to our nation's capital washington, d.c. But he couldn't go on the trip if his older brother wouldn't accompany him So if you would please buy a subscription to the chicago tribune then my little brother will be happy Wow, what a shyster! some people'll do anything to get to the whitehouse
Then there was the year that my mom and dad gave me my first guitar Ah man it was gorgeous, I still got the thing It was a like aqua blue. kinda dark aqua blue with a cream colored heart. was a silvertone from montgomery wards. the model was called kentucky blue and man when I saw that sitting under the tree I just couldn't wait First year so I didn't know how to play it I'd just stand in from of the mirror with a string around my neck with that guitar and I'd try to look like elvis Then my brother dave taught me a couple of chords Now I'm here in your living room singing and talking to you It's funny how things work out
So-a whyn't you go find a stranger and extend your hand to 'em If you see somebody looks like they ain't doin' quite as well as you, slip 'em a buck 'Specially if they don't ask for spare change Go buy your honey a cuckoo clock or a musical snow shaking water ball That when you wind it up it plays "I want you, I need you, I love ya with all my heart." 'Cause after all, hell man, it's christmas
Away in a manger no crib for a bed The little lord jesus lay down his sweet head The stars in the sky look down where he lay The little lord jesus asleep on the (1-2) hay
(Spoken) merry christmas everybody (Words finally transcribed by fancy nancy)
[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]
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