Thank God It's Christmas included on the bonus EP packaged with the deluxe edition of their album "The Works", remastered and re-released in 2011. No promotional video was filmed for the track. It appears on the Christmas compilation LP "The Edge Of Christmas" in its full 12" version with the drum intro. It also appears on the US-only compilation boxed-set "The Queen Collection", which consisted of a re-release of the LPs "Classic Queen" and "Queen's Greatest Hits" along with a bonus CD called "Queen Talks" that included this song, along with a 1989 interview with the band. Thank God It's Christmas "Thank God It's
Hard Candy Christmas sings the verses. Parton's version of the song was released as a single in October 1982, reaching number 8 on the U.S. country singles chart in January 1983. In 1998, the song re-entered the country charts and peaked at number 73 based on unsolicited airplay. Though not expressly a "Christmas song", Parton's recording received some airplay on country stations around the holiday seasons during the 1980s and 1990s; Parton also performed the song on Bob Hope's Christmas Special in 1988. During the late 1990s, when RCA reissued Parton's 1984 holiday album with Kenny Rogers, "Once Upon a Christmas", Parton's recording