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McGraw is joined by a guitar player and a fiddle player for the cover.

The country artist also uploaded a cover of Merle Haggard's \"If We Make It Through December\" with the same musicians last week.

\"Little Holiday song to get us in the spirit. Here's one of my favorites… 'If we make it through December,' \" he wrote alongside the clip.

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