As is their annual holiday tradition, The Killers have recorded a new Christmas song to benefit the (RED) Campaign, with all proceeds going directly to the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS.

While The Killers’ aim is true, these festive tunes present something of a mixed bag. A great big yes, for instance, to 2006’s inaugural entry, “A Great Big Sled” (featuring Curve’s Toni Halliday), but a ho-ho-hum to 2009’s mariachi-infused “¡Happy Birthday Guadalupe!” (Feliz NOvidades, on that one.)

This year’s charity single, “The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball,” the band’s sixth, falls somewhere in between. The Killers don metaphorical ten-gallon hats for this jangly tune that would amazingly find favor in both rodeos and Irish pubs. Surprisingly, it’s not an original composition as we’ve come to expect from the Vegas band, but rather a revamped cover of a song by Dallas singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey. [UPDATE: Actually, the song is adapted from a poem from 1890 by William Lawrence Chittenden, which Flowers found in a cowboy poetry book.]

The Killers’ have lensed a music video for “The Cowboys’ Christmas Song,” expected to debut tomorrow, December 1, World AIDS Day.

For a limited time, you can get a free download of “The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball” or any of The Killers’ other Christmas songs (“A Great Big Sled,” “Don’t Shoot Me Santa,” “Joseph, Better You Than Me,” “¡Happy Birthday Guadalupe!,” “Boots,”) by adding a pledge to your panel on the virtual (2015)QUILT.

The six songs are available to purchase on iTunes as individual singles, and have also been packaged together as exclusive (RED) Christmas EP. Again, all proceeds benefit the Global Fund, the recipient of (RED) money, to help fight HIV/AIDS.

Purchase The Killers – “The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball” or (RED) Christmas EP via iTunes.