[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:10.32]There's a whole lotta people [00:11.77]Lookin' down their noses at me [00:16.57]'Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family [00:22.43]I guess I learned to take it for most of the year [00:26.13]But every December when Christmas drew near [00:28.95]And all the other families were out spreadin' [00:31.30]Cheer we was sittin' home being po' folks [00:36.74]Our Christmas shopping was thumblin' [00:38.59]Through the new catalog [00:42.66]Lookin' and a wishin' and a wantin' everything we saw [00:48.55]Little toy trains and little toy boats and sister [00:52.17]Kept lookin' at the little girl's coats [00:54.93]We all sat down and wrote Santa a note [00:57.85]But Santa don't come to see po' folks [01:01.14]And we wadn't nothing but po' folks [01:04.85]Po' folks livin' way in the country we never [01:09.18]Heard the jingle of the jingle bells [01:11.81]Ho ho ho we was po po po' and if we had [01:15.43]Christmas well we just made it ourselves [01:18.10]Daddy took a hatchet and daddy chopped a pine tree down [01:24.17]The only decorations were the ones we made or found [01:30.11]Brother saw some holly in the rich men's yard [01:33.37]He picked it up fast and ran home hard [01:36.47]And mama knew he stole it but bless [01:38.69]Her heart Christmas ain't easy on po' folks [01:42.63]And it ain't no time for whipping po' folks [01:49.95]I remember one Christmas it was blowing [01:52.24]And a snowing mean [01:56.13]Wadn't nothing in the kitchen [01:57.71]But a few of mama's homecanned beans [02:02.20]Some ladies from the church brought a basket of food [02:05.61]Mama kinda smiled and she said that's good [02:08.89]But all just take it to [02:10.35]The folks that live down the road [02:12.32]They ain't got as much as we do huh why they're just po' folks [02:16.31]She only kept a chicken and enough to [02:18.47]Make some homemade bread [02:21.86]But you'd've thought we was feastin' from [02:24.09]The blessings that my daddy said [02:28.09]And later when kids was tucked in tight [02:31.31]And the fire wadn't nothin' but a flickering light [02:34.60]You oughta heard my mama sing Silent night [02:42.82]'Cause that's what you do when you're po' folks [02:46.84]And we wadn't nothin' but po' folks [02:49.72]Christmas time when you're po' folks [02:53.10]The Lord sure must've loved us po' folks [02:55.65]Ha ha he made a passel of us [02:59.10]Everybody at my house was po' folks [03:01.53]Why most of the time we was po' [03:03.02]We couldn't even pay attention mercy [03:08.70]Christmas time when you're po' folks