Текст песни: Christmas 1974 + перевод

Two days before Christmas, 1974:

You’ve got all your pretty Christmas cards spread out on the floor

From your sisters-­in-­law and your mother’s friends who’d come to the wedding

back in June

It was no surprise to any of them that you’d be expecting so soon

Using your sewing scissors, even though you know it’ll make them dull

Cutting out snowflakes and reindeer, tie a ribbon through a little hole

You’ve got a Joni Mitchell record playing on the stereo

And a second pan of popcorn popping on the stove

With your little homemade dress

And your little homemade ornaments

You were making it up as you went along

Maybe it was common sense

To make your own cheerfulness

In that little rented house on a corn and soybean farm

Take your garden shovel and a five­gallon bucket down the lane

There’s been plenty of snow this winter, and then yesterday it rained

Half a bucket of gravel oughta be enough to hold the tree up straight

Then you’ll string the popcorn and cut an angel from a paper plate

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