Testo A John Prine Christmas - John Prine
Testo della canzone A John Prine Christmas (John Prine), tratta dall'album A John Prine Christmas
Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue
Man oh man, I just love Christmas
It's just so darn neat
I kinda wish every day was Christmas
Except for Christmas Eve and the Fourth of July
Who wouldn't want to miss out on those fireworks, would we?
When I was a kid we used to get the Christmas
Catalog from Montgomery Ward's in Chicago
Sometimes we'd get it as early as late August
That was the big book of wishes, hopes and desires
My three brothers and I were allotted twenty-five bucks apiece
Including tax
So I'd make up a different Christmas list every night from
The first of September to the twenty-fourth of December
Matter of fact, let me present you my Christmas credentials
When I was three years old, at least this is 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 then they bounce right back up
They made 'em out of wood then, that's how old I am
Nowadays I guess they make 'em out of plastic
My mom says they just don't make 'em like that anymore
I says, "No, Ma, they don't"
Then there was the year I come home on leave from the Army
From Germany to marry my high school
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 'em 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 couldn't accompany him
So if you'd please buy a subscription to the Chicago Tribune
Then my little brother will be very happy
Wow, what a shyster
Some people will do anything to get to the White House
Then there was the year that my ma and dad gave me my first guitar
Oh man, it was gorgeous
I still got the thing
It was like aqua blue
Kinda dark aqua blue
With a cream-colored heart
It was a Silvertone from Montgomery Ward's
The model was called Kentucky Blue
And man, when I saw that sitting under the tree
I just couldn't wait
First year or so I didn't know how to play it
I'd just stand in front 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
And now I'm here in your living room singing and talking to you
It's funny how things work out
So why don't you go find a stranger and extend your hand to 'em
If you see somebody that looks like
They ain't doing quite as well as you
Slip 'em a buck
Especially 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 you 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 laid down His sweet head
The stars in the sky looked down where He lay
The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay
Merry Christmas everybody
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Writer(s): John E Prine
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