"Reading: Mark Billingham, The Ballad of The Breadman" ( Charles Causley) – 3:33."Choir: Oh, Come All Ye Faithful" (Traditional) – 3:50."Reading: Gavin Esler, God's Grandeur" ( Gerard Manley Hopkins) – 1:50."Another Christmas Song" (Anderson) – 3:56."Reading: Ian Anderson, Marmion" ( Sir Walter Scott) – 2:17."Choir: Silent Night" (Traditional) – 3:06."Living in These Hard Times" (Anderson) – 3:44.George Pitcher / Choir: What Cheer" ( William Walton) – 3:32 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen' (Track 5) has been played in concert many times over the years: this is the first studio version. 'Bourée', however, has significant alterations to the musical arrangement. Tracks 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, and 15 are all re-recordings of previously released pieces. "A Winter Snowscape" (Instrumental, Martin Barre) – 4:57."Ring Out Solstice Bells" (Anderson) – 4:04."We Five Kings" (Instrumental " We Three Kings", Rev."First Snow on Brooklyn" (Anderson) – 4:57." Pavane" (Instrumental, Gabriel Fauré, arranged by Anderson) – 4:19."Last Man at the Party" (Anderson) – 4:48."Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow" (Anderson) – 3:37.instrumental arranged by Anderson) – 4:35 " God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (Trad."Another Christmas Song" (Anderson) – 3:31.Mendelssohn) instrumental medley arranged by Anderson) – 4:16 "Holly Herald" (" The Holly and the Ivy" (Trad.) / " Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (F."Birthday Card at Christmas" (Ian Anderson) – 3:37.Funny old 25ths, Decembers…" Track listing The daunting party and festive celebration of the Christian calendar overshadows too, some might argue, the humble birthday of one Mr. Overshadowed by the Great Occasion, such birthdays can be flat, perfunctory and fleetingly token in their uneventful passing. "My daughter Gael, like millions of other unfortunates, celebrates her birthday within a gnat's whisker of Christmas. Of the opening song, Birthday Card at Christmas, Ian Anderson has said: In 2009, the live album Christmas at St Bride's 2008 was included with the original album on CD. The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is a mix of new material, re-recordings of Tull's own suitably themed material and arrangements of traditional Christmas music. This was the band's last studio album for 19 years (until the release of The Zealot Gene in 2022), as well as the last album to feature the lineup of Ian Anderson, guitarist Martin Barre (and his last album with the group), bassist Jonathan Noyce, keyboardist Andrew Giddings, and drummer Doane Perry. The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is the 21st studio album released by Jethro Tull, on 30 September 2003. 126:29 (with Christmas at St Bride's 2008)
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