Kenny Rogers - Kentucky Homemade Christmas lyrics

They shut down the mine last summer
We're gettin' by on welfare
It's Christmas Eve
I'm walking home, not a dollar to my name
Night is almost on me
A night I'm almost dreading
No store bought gifts to open
But there'll be Christmas just the same

It's just another homemade
Christmas in Kentucky just odds and ends
I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
It's just another homemade
Christmas in Kentucky
Our fine and fancy homemade love
God's precious gift from up above
Make up the homemade Christmas of
This poor Kentucky man

There's a brand new Barlow knife
With a shiny wooden handle
Gleamin' in the window down
At Galen Johnson's store
My wide eyed little Billy Boy
His face pressed to the window
Too young for understanding what it
Means to be so poor

It's just another homemade
Christmas in Kentucky just odds and ends
I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
It's just another homemade
Christmas in Kentucky
Our fine and fancy homemade love
God's precious gift from up above
Make up the homemade Christmas of
This poor Kentucky man

Little Linda ain't no baby
Hell, she turns thirteen in April
She's been dreamin' about that dolly in
The window for half her life
She's old enough to realize that
It ain't never comin'
I'd damn near rob a bank to
Get that doll and Billy's knife

It's just another homemade
Christmas in Kentucky just odds and ends
I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
It's just another homemade
Christmas in Kentucky
Our fine and fancy homemade love
God's precious gift from up above
Make up the homemade Christmas of
This poor Kentucky man