How many Thanksgiving hymns did you sing this year? Probably zero, unless you were in church on the Sunday before Turkey Day. That's really the only time these great songs see the light of day.
Actually, in my life, this year I heard Christmas carols before Thanksgiving, which I found so irritating. I wish Thanksgiving as a whole lasted 3x longer than it does, and Christmas lasted one-tenth the time of the bloated commercial season. But we can't always get what we want.
All that's within my control is to celebrate Thanksgiving as much as I can, and that means expressing my thankfulness through the words of Thanksgiving hymns. As last year I made some additions, I have altered the original words a bit. I guess this makes me the "Weird Al" Yankovic of Thanksgiving hymns.
Here's my Thanksgiving hymn for 2010. I would need many more stanzas to include all the blessings in my life, but I hope this gets the general point across!
P.S. If you want to hear the original, which is based on the tune of "The Ash Grove," you can hear it here.
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