"Joys of Christmas" is a song by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, which was released in 1987 as the third single from his ninth studio album Dancing with Strangers.

Rea recalled for the liner notes of the 2019 re-issue of Dancing with Strangers, "This song was the Christmas I knew when I was young.

And all of that used to descend on me in the afternoon, in my nylon white coat, which had this funny little man in a chef's uniform, and the words 'Mr Really Good', with the R-E-A in red, and the rest in blue.

"[5] In a review of Dancing with Strangers, Robin Denselow of The Guardian described "Joys of Christmas" as a "bleak view of life in the North" and noted the song's "melodic bluesy feel" and "spoken pieces".

[6] Helen Metella of the Edmonton Journal commented that the song "juxtaposes a modern hymn against the snapshots of out-of-work youth in north England".