The Christmas Spirit

The Christmas Spirit
The Christmas Spirit
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	November 11, 1963
Recorded	August 14, 1959 - September 17, 1963
Genre	Pop; Christmas; country;
Length	38:20
Label	Columbia
Producer	Don Law; Frank Jones;
Johnny Cash chronology
Singles from The Christmas Spirit
	"The Little Drummer Boy"; Released: October 1959;

The Christmas Spirit is the first Christmas album and seventeenth album by

Little Drummer Boy

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Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Christmas Spirit" (incorporates "O Little Town of Bethlehem")	Cash	5:03
2.	"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jean Baptiste Calkin	2:30
3.	"Blue Christmas"	Bill Hayes, Jay Johnston	2:25
4.	"The Gifts They Gave"	Cash	3:34
5.	"Here Was a Man"	Johnny Bond, Tex Ritter	2:44
6.	"Christmas as I Knew It"	Cash, June Carter, Jan Howard	3:41

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
7.	" Josef Mohr	3:29
8.	"The Little Drummer Boy"	Katherine Davis, Henri Onerati, Harry Simeone	2:34
9.	"Ringing the Bells for Jim"	Carter, Howard	2:47
10.	"We Are the Shepherds"	Cash	3:13
11.	"Who Kept the Sheep"	Cash, Carter	1:58
12.	"Ballad of the Harp Weaver"	Edna St. Vincent Millay	4:22