Tonalidad: G major
Verse 1
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This story was told to me
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by Verdon R. Adams
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and it took place on a farm
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outside of Hydra, Oklahoma.
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It was Christmas
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and one of Papa's brothers
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came from Kentucky to visit.
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Mama said Un cle Johnny had a glass eye
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an d she said it was a bit unusual
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and we should be very careful
about looking at it
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and we shouldn't stare at it
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or say anything about it
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when he was in the room.
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Uncle Johnny arrived on Christmas Eve
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and Mama was right.
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His eyes were funny.
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One of them would move
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and look all around
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and the other eye always
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stared straight ahead.
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The very next morning,
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Christmas morning,
Uncle Johnny slept late
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because he'd had a long
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ride the day before.
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But I couldn't wait to see what
Santa had brought,
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and I wanted Un cle Johnny
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to come downstairs with me.
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So I went to the back room,
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and he was awake,
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but he just had one eye open.
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And he said, Is breakfast ready, Burden?
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And I told him it wasn't,
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but I thought he ought to come down
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and see the presents
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that Santa had left under the tree.
And he said,
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I'd like to rest a little longer,
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but why don't you take my eye down
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and show the presents to it?
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He picked up a glass that
was sitting on the table
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and handed it to me.
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It was half full of water,
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and the eye was in it.
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It was a little scary, but I took it and walked
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carefully down the stairs to the front room.
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I walked around the Christmas tree,
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holding the glass out,
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turning and jiggling it
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so the eye could look at all those
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wonderful packages.
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Now us kids weren't supposed
to look in our stockings,
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not until everybody got out of bed.
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But I didn't see any harm
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in Uncle Johnny's eye
peeking inside of mine.
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I slowly slid the glass down
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inside the stocking
that had verdant stitched on it,
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then swiveled it all around,
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then slid it back out
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and crept back up the stairs.
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I handed the glass back
to Uncle Johnny,
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and he turned away
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and put the eye back in his head,
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and he said, Well, lookie here.
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I sure want to thank you, little nephew.
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These packages are just great,
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and what a lucky little man you are
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to get a shiny, round orange
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in the middle of winter
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and a brand new Barlow knife.
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Well, when all my brothers and
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sisters got out of bed,
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We went straight to our stockings
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and sure enough Santa had brought me
a shiny round orange
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and a brand new Barlow knife.
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For many years I could not be convinced
that his eye hadn't seen
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what was in my stocking.
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Not until Mama told me
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that it was Uncle Johnny
who had brought the orange
and the Barlow knife
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an d many of the presents
that went into the stockings
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that Christmas.
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Now I have a family of my own
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and though Uncle Johnny
is no longer with us,
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he left us with a gift
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that will always enable us to
see the magic in Christmas.
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