Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for November 25, 2024

I rather like “The Little Drumstick Boy” and “We Wish You a Yummy Side Dish”. :-)

Shh! We don’t want to give Mariah Carey ideas about Thanksgiving songs!

And some jolly old bird that flies down your chimney, filling your stockings with stuffing.

Or something like that.

The funny thing is that “Jingle Bells” was written to be a Thanksgiving song but became a Christmas carol later.

There are some good songs/hymns of/about giving thanks which could work fine as Thanksgiving Carols, such as:

Now Thank We All Our God (with hearts and hands and voices)

Praise and Thanksgiving (Father, we offer, for all things living …)

Give Thanks (with a grateful heart, Give thanks to the Holy One)

Thank You, Lord (Thank You, Lord, … I just want to thank You, Lord)

Thank You, Jesus (we bless You, Jesus, we praise You Christ, our Lord)

I want to hear the words to those songs.

“O Come, All Ye Hungry”

The ones about Jesus are Christmas songs. Snowmen & sleighs are about winter.

“Oh Little Town of Plymouth Rock”

“I Saw Mommy Kissing Tom Turkey”

“Here We Come A-Waddling (After Thanksgiving Dinner)”

RIP, Alice Brock, who inspired the greatest Thanksgiving song of all time.