Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day

When we were farmers

We hauled in the harvest

And founded Thanksgiving Day.

With food in the shed

For the winter ahead

We would gather together to say--

Thanks for our health

Thanks for our hearth

And the bounty that grows from the ground.

With our loved ones near

We bless the year

That’s brought us safely ‘round.

Now we are shoppers.

We drive to the market.

The farm seems a lightyear away.

Still, every November

We pause to remember

That time-honored, old-fashioned day.
Thanks for our health

Thanks for our hearth

And the bounty that grows from the ground.

With our loved ones near

We bless the year

That’s brought us safely ‘round.

Everything changes,

Yes, even Thanksgiving.

Let’s rededicate this old day

To helping the hungry,

The poor and the homeless

So all may be able to say—

Thanks for our health

Thanks for our hearth

And the bounty that grows from the ground.

With our loved ones near

We bless the year

That’s brought us safely ‘round.

(John Forster and Tom Chapin: Thanksgiving Day)

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Instead the refrain: 'With our loved ones near, We bless the year, That's brought us safely 'round

I would rather say: With our loved ones far, God bless us all, To have a safe new year.

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Have a Happy Thanksgiving Day!