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I Pray on Christmas

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"I Pray on Christmas"
SongbyHarry Connick Jr
from the album When My Heart Finds Christmas
Released	1993
Recorded	Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA, July 1993
Genre	Christmas
Length	3:48
Label	Sony/Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Harry Connick Jr
Producer(s)	Tracey Freeman

"I Pray on Christmas" is a Christmas carol with music and lyrics by Harry Connick Jr. First released in 1993 on his multi platinum album When My Heart Finds Christmas. Connick has also released the song on his Christmas Special VHS in 1994, and again on his DVD Harry for the Holidays (2003) as a bonus track featuring Connick and Kim Burrell.

Sample of the lyrics[edit]

I pray on Christmas

Oh, the sick will soon be strong

I pray on Christmas

The Lord will hear my song

I pray on Christmas

That God will lead the way

And I pray I really pray on Christmas

He'll get me through another day

Dave Barnes, album Very Merry Christmas (2010).
Lynda Randle with Michael Tait, on the album Christmas (2005).
Blind Boys of Alabama with Solomon Burke, on album Go Tell It on the Mountain (2003).
The Oak Ridge Boys, on the album An Inconvenient Christmas (2002).
Kirk Talley, album Talley-ho-ho-ho! (1999).
Måns Zelmerlöw, album Christmas with Friends (2010).^[1]
Miriam Mandipira and The Danish Radio Big Band, album Jazzin Around Christmas (2016)

^ "Christmas with Friends". Swedish Media Database. 2010. Retrieved December 9, 2019.

v t e Harry Connick Jr.
Vocal albums	20 (1988) We Are in Love (1990) Blue Light, Red Light (1991) 25 (1992) When My Heart Finds Christmas (1993) She (1994) Star Turtle (1996) To See You (1997) Come by Me (1999) 30 (2001) Songs I Heard (2001) Harry for the Holidays (2003) Only You (2004) Oh, My Nola (2007) What a Night! (2008) Your Songs (2009)
Instrumental albums	Dixieland Plus (1977) Pure Dixieland (1979) Harry Connick Jr. (1987) Lofty's Roach Souffle (1990) Other Hours (2003) Occasion (2005) Chanson du Vieux Carré (2007)
Soundtrack albums	When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Compilation albums	Forever for Now It Had to Be You
Cast recordings	Thou Shalt Not (2002) Harry on Broadway, Act I (2006)
Home media	Singin' & Swingin' (1990) Swinging Out Live (1991) The New York Big Band Concert (1993) The Christmas Special (1994) Harry for the Holidays (2003) Only You: In Concert (2004) A Duo Occasion (2005) In Concert on Broadway (2011)
Musicals	Thou Shalt Not (2001)
Tours	My New Orleans Tour
Related articles	Discography Songs Musicians' Village Krewe of Orpheus Jill Goodacre Harry Connick Sr.