The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is the 21st studio album released by Jethro Tull, on 30 September 2003 (see 2003 in music). The contents are a mix of new material, re-recordings of Tull's own suitably themed material and arrangements of traditional Christmas music. In 2009, the live album Christmas at St Bride's 2008 was included with the original album on CD.
Ian Anderson about the song "Birthday Card at Christmas": "My daughter Gael, like millions of other unfortunates, celebrates her birthday within a gnat’s whisker of Christmas. Overshadowed by the Great Occasion, such birthdays can be flat, perfunctory and fleetingly token in their uneventful passing. The daunting party and festive celebration of the Christian calendar overshadows too, some might argue, the humble birthday of one Mr. J. Christ. Funny old 25ths, Decembers…"
"Birthday Card at Christmas" (Ian Anderson) – 3:37 "Holly Herald" (Instrumental medley arranged by Anderson) – 4:16 "A Christmas Song" (Anderson) – 2:47 "Another Christmas Song" (Anderson) – 3:31 "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (Trad. instrumental arranged by Anderson) – 4:35 "Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow" (Anderson) – 3:37 "Last Man at the Party" (Anderson) – 4:48 "Weathercock" (Anderson) – 4:17 "Pavane" (Instrumental, Gabriel Fauré, arranged by Anderson) – 4:19 "First Snow on Brooklyn" (Anderson) – 4:57 "Greensleeved" (Trad. instrumental based on "Greensleeves". Arranged by Anderson) – 2:39 "Fire at Midnight" (Anderson) – 2:26 "We Five Kings" (Instrumental "We Three Kings", Rev. J. Hopkins, arranged by Anderson) – 3:16 "Ring Out Solstice Bells" (Anderson) – 4:04 "Bourée" (Instrumental J. S. Bach, arranged by Anderson) – 4:25 "A Winter Snowscape" (Instrumental, Martin Barre) – 4:57