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Which popular Christmas song was really written for Thanksgiving?
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∙ 13y ago
Thanksgiving has launched a number of songs: Over the river and through the woods is best-known thematic song. It can be argued that ( Home for the Holidays) by Bing Crosby might actually be about Thanksgiving. Food is an abundant sub-themes, it seem to take place in a roadside restaurant on a major highway. There is no mention of Christmas in the song- or its customs- Santa Claus, trees, ornaments, even snow. All of the locations in the song are American. Thanksgiving is a uniquely American Holiday. On the church front there are several hymns dealing with Thanksgiving- No Thank we all Our God! and We Gather Together, two examples. But as you said Popular song- definitely Over the river and through the woods- and very probably Home For The Holidays.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 12y agoIt is arguable that this could apply to Home for the Holidays. All of the locations in the song are American, Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. The usual lyrical Christmas trappings- such as trees, Santa Claus, jingle bells, etc are absent). The song does not mention Christmas proper but merely Home for the Holidays.
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∙ 13y agoArguably Home for the Holidays: while it gets into political geography it does not specifically mention Christmas. The older, also travel-oriented (Over the river and through the woods) is about Thanksgiving and mentions it in the song. Like the other song, it mentions Pumpkin Pie. Many (holiday) songs do not even mention Christmas or Christ- such as Jingle Bells, and others.
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∙ 14y agoHome for the Holidays- Bing Crosby and others. listen closely- it does not mention Christmas or even Yule trappings such as TREES, SANTA, TRIMMINGS, entirely US oriented which is not in synch with the Cosmpolitan angle of Christmas.
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∙ 13y agoIt is debatable that (Home for the Holidays) which links family reunions with heavy interstate traffic- MIGHT be a mid-century (20Th) update of Over the River and through the woods- which is about Thanksgiving, not Christmas. If you examine the song- it does not ONCE directly mention Christmas, or any direct yule trappings(on the other hand the ( most wonderful time of the year alludes to Scrooge- one of the few songs to do so- by talk of ( scary Ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmasses long, long, ago!) that one Does mention Christmas. by the way Pumpkin Pie figures both in the original Thanksgiving song( horse drawn)- and in Home for the Holidays.
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∙ 13y agoJingle Bells is a popular Christmas song that was actually written for Thanksgiving.
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∙ 14y agoJingle Bells
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∙ 12y agoJingle bells by james pierpoint
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