Goin' Home for Christmas

Goin' Home for Christmas
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1982
GenreCountry, Christmas
Length28:55
LabelEpic
ProducerMerle Haggard and Roy Nichols
Merle Haggard chronology
Going Where the Lonely Go
(1982)
Goin' Home for Christmas
(1982)
Pancho & Lefty
(1983)

Goin' Home for Christmas is the 36th studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers, released in 1982. A Christmas album, it reached Number 41 on the Billboard Country album chart.[1] It was re-issued on Epic in 1984 with a completely different sleeve. Subsequent re-issues have reverted to variations of the original sleeve, but with a bonus track, "White Christmas" added. This extra track was recorded in 1986 and released in 1988 on the various artist collection "Nashville's Greatest Christmas Hits" (Columbia CK 44412). It was co-produced by Roy Nichols, lead guitarist of The Strangers.