Johnny Cash Album: The Johnny Cash Family Christmas Track: Narration
Narration Lyrics
[ Johnny ] That's a night we are celebratin' at Christmas time And according to Marshall Grant up in Flatts,North Carolina They had their own way of celebratin' Christmas too Marshall what did you get for Christmas say when you were six years old [ Marshall] When I was six years old about the biggest present that I could ever remember gettin' Was something like a little hatchet or a french harp I remember one year that I got a hatchet and ole Dale got a french harp He wanted my hatchet but I didn't want his french harp But he got what he wanted and everything but their was fourteen of us In that little house up in Flatts North Carolina There was one thing that we did have and at that time of year that was love All of us loved one another and it was cold Always cold with the little fireplace but the room felt so warm And it was really warm even though there was a lot of scrambling Over the gifts that we got swapping backward and forth From all the brothers and sisters It was really warm in Flatts North Carolina always on Christmas [ Johnny ] I think probably a lot of people might wonder as I did where is Flatts North Carolina [ Marshall] Well I tell you Flatts North Carolina it's about eighty miles from Ashville And you go through Cherokee and Brison City And you get to a little place called Maddy Hill in North Carolina [ June ] But that ain't it! [ Marshall] No [ Johnny ] Then you go up the wind [ Marshall] You take a little left there at Maddy Hill if you're goin' east And you go up the windin' stairs for fourteen miles and you round about a dozen bends And all of a sudden, there is no sign, and if you ask anybody up there Where Olson Grant lives that's Main Street
