If We Make It Through December - The Petersens (LIVE)

🇺🇸 US Christmas Tour 🇺🇸
Ludington, MI • St. Louis, MO • Dayton, OH • Charlotte, NC • Santa Barbara, CA • Arlington, TX
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🇺🇸 Christmas Shows in Branson, MO 🇺🇸
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2 PM until January 4th
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🇳🇿 New Zealand Tour 2025 🇳🇿
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It's that time of year where everything seems to be happening at once! Family parties, work parties, church events.... We have a few songs we are trying to learn before the end of the year and ALL the Christmas private events that have booked us are coming up. Send prayers! It's equally fun and stressful and we wouldn't have it any other way.

Whether the holidays are your favorite time of year, or you are just making it through, this song is for you.

►Soundtrack your Christmas:
» First Christmas album https://li.sten.to/ChristmasWithThePe...
» Second Christmas album https://li.sten.to/WeDontNeedAnything...
» YouTube Christmas playlist    • Christmas with The Petersens  

►Enjoy this Branson Christmas Music Special, filmed in 2019. It features Ellen's husband Michael's show, The Haygoods, and us performing among the 6.5 million lights at Silver Dollar City!    • Branson Christmas Music Show Special  

►More Merle Haggard
California Cottonfields    • California Cottonfields - The Peterse...  
Sing Me Back Home (on Matt's channel)    • Sing Me Back Home - Merle Haggard (Co...  

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►This video:
Lead vocal & guitar: ‪@mattpetersen4000‬
Harmony vocal & mandolin: ‪@JuliannePetersen‬
Harmony vocal & fiddle: ‪@katiepetersen‬
Harmony vocal & banjo: ‪@EllenHaygood‬
Dobro: Emmett Franz
Bass: Karen Petersen

Key moments:
0:01 guitar
0:50 guitar
1:41 dobro
2:02 fiddle
3:15 guitar
3:31 outro

Venue: The Worman House Bistro at Big Cedar Lodge https://bigcedar.com
Big Cedar is a wilderness resort just south of Branson, with some of the best sunsets over Table Rock Lake! It has a rustic hunt-camp feel and is popular with everyone from vacationers and families, to fishermen and golfers.

Turn on captions (CC) to see the lyrics on screen.
Videography: Aaron Clark
Audio: Troy Dixon
Microphones: Ear Trumpet Labs https://www.eartrumpetlabs.com

►LYRICS - If We Make It Through December
If we make it through December
Everything's gonna be all right, I know
It's the coldest time of winter
And I shiver when I see the fallin' snow

If we make it through December
Got plans of bein' in a warmer town come summertime
Maybe even California
If we make it through December, we'll be fine

Got laid off down at the factory
And their timing's not the greatest in the world
Heaven knows I've been workin' hard
I wanted Christmas to be right for my girl

I don't mean to hate December
It's meant to be the happy time of year
And my girl, she don't understand
Why I can't afford no Christmas here

If we make it through December
Everything's gonna be alright, I know
It's the coldest time of winter
And I shiver when I see the fallin' snow

If we make it through December
Got plans of bein' in a warmer town come summertime
Maybe even California
If we make it through December, we'll be fine

Maybe even California
If we make it through December, we'll be fine

►The Petersens:
We celebrate American roots music with family values, and perform full time in Branson, Missouri in the USA. The band consists of four siblings, Katie, Ellen, Matt, and Julianne, our mom Karen, and good friend Emmett Franz. Learn more about our family on our website https://petersenband.com

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This song features on: Hopefully a future Christmas album