If We Make It Through December

"If We Make It Through December"
Single by Merle Haggard and the Strangers
from the album If We Make It Through December
B-side"Bobby Wants a Puppy Dog for Christmas"
ReleasedOctober 27, 1973
Recorded1973
StudioColumbia (Nashville, Tennessee)
GenreCountry
Length2:42
LabelCapitol 3746
Songwriter(s)Merle Haggard
Producer(s)Ken Nelson
Merle Haggard and the Strangers singles chronology
"Everybody's Had the Blues"
(1973)
"If We Make It Through December"
(1973)
"Things Aren't Funny Anymore"
(1974)

"If We Make It Through December" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Merle Haggard and the Strangers. It was released in October 1973 as the lead single from the album Merle Haggard's Christmas Present, and was the title track on a non-Christmas album four months later. In the years since its release, "If We Make It Through December" — which, in addition to its Christmas motif, also uses themes of unemployment and loneliness — has become one of the trademark songs of Haggard's career.