Merle Haggard's Christmas Present

{{Infobox album

| name = Merle Haggard's Christmas Present

| type = Studio album

| artist = Merle Haggard

| cover = Christmas Present Merle Haggard.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Cover to the standard edition of the album

| released = November 1973

| recorded = January and July 1973

| studio = Columbia (Nashville, Tennessee)

| venue =

| genre = Country, Christmas

| length = 25:14

| label = Capitol

| producer = Ken Nelson, Fuzzy Owen

| prev_title = I Love Dixie Blues

| prev_year = 1973

| next_title = If We Make It Through December

| next_year = 1974

| misc = {{Extra album cover

| header = Alternative Cover

| type = album

| cover = Christmas Present Merle Haggard2.jpg

| border =

| alt =

| caption =

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r132979|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

}}

Merle Haggard's Christmas Present is the eighteenth studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers, released in 1973.[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r132979|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic entry for A Christmas Present.] The single, "If We Make It Through December" spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in December 1973 and January 1974, and cracked the Top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100. "If We Make It Through December" was the No. 2 song of the year on Billboard's Hot Country Singles 1974 year-end chart. [https://web.archive.org/web/20061020160642/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/yearend_chart_display.jsp?f=Hot+Country+Songs&g=Year-end+Singles&year=1974]