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If We Make It Through December : ウィキペディア英語版 | If We Make It Through December
"If We Make It Through December" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Merle Haggard. 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. ==Content== Written in 1973, it treats with Haggard's characteristically simple poetry the desperate optimism of a working-class man dealing with economic hardship. Having been laid off from his factory job just prior to the Christmas season, the man becomes depressed over his predicament during what normally should be a "''happy time of year.''" At one point, he observes that his little girl "''don't understand why Daddy can't afford no Christmas here.''" The chorus, "''If we make it through December/Everything's gonna be alright, I know''" expresses hope, the protagonist telling himself that hope exists if he wants to deal with "''the coldest time of winter''" and the cold, lonely feeling he experiences while watching the snow fall ("''and I shiver when I see the falling snow''"). While Christmas is a prominent theme of this song, writer Tom Roland said the song is not considered a "pure" Christmas record, as the subject of economics was also explored.〔Roland, Tom, "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits" (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-8230-7553-2)), p. 103〕
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