Christmas in Fallujah

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| name = Christmas in Fallujah

| cover = Billy Joel - Christmas in Fallujah.jpg

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| caption = Artwork for Billy Joel recording

| type = single

| artist = Cass Dillon and Billy Joel

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| released = December 4, 2007

| recorded = 2007

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| genre = Rock

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| writer = Billy Joel

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| chronology = Cass Dillon

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| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Billy Joel

| type = singles

| prev_title = All My Life

| prev_year = 2007

| title = Christmas in Fallujah

| year = 2007

| next_title = Turn the Lights Back On

| next_year = 2024

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"Christmas in Fallujah" is a single written by Billy Joel and performed by Cass Dillon.{{cite press release|title=Emerging singer-songwriter Cass Dillon premieres new Billy Joel song, "Christmas In Fallujah," exclusively on iTunes beginning Tuesday, December 4 |url=http://www.billyjoel.com/pressrelease_fallujah.html |publisher=Columbia Records' official site for Billy Joel |date=2007-11-30 |access-date=2007-12-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207165801/http://www.billyjoel.com/pressrelease_fallujah.html |archive-date=2008-02-07 }} A few weeks after recording the track, Joel introduced Dillon on stage in Chicago for the first live performance of the song.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs785Wo2dCw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/qs785Wo2dCw| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Introduction to "Christmas In Fallujah"|last=ocdmusicgroup|date=5 December 2007|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} It is also Joel's second new song of original material with lyrics he had written since 1993's River of Dreams after "All My Life".

The single was released on December 4, 2007, exclusively from the iTunes Store and was included on Dillon's EP A Good Thing Never Dies (iTunes download).{{cite web|url=http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/12/25/emerging_singer_songwriter_cass_dillon_p?page=3|title=Emerging Singer-Songwriter Cass Dillon Premieres, 'Christmas In Fallujah'|author=Starpulse Staff|date=25 December 2007}} The proceeds from this single were donated to Homes for Our Troops, a nonprofit organization that builds specially adapted homes for American service members returning from Iraq (Fallujah is a city in Iraq) and Afghanistan with severe disabilities.{{cite news |work=La Crónica de Hoy |title=Billy Joel lanza canción contra la guerra |url=http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=336808 |language=es |date=2007-12-09}}