FReeper Canteen ~ Tell Us Your Favorite "Thanksgiving or Thankful" Song ~ 28 November 2014

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Favorite "Thanksgiving or Thankful" Songs

*Video*

Johnny Cash - Thanksgiving Prayer


We've come to the time in the season
When family and friends gather near
To offer a prayer of Thanksgiving
For blessings we've known through the year
To join hands and thank the creator
And now when Thanksgiving is due
This year when I count my blessings
I'm thanking the Lord He made you
This year when I count my blessings
I'm thanking the Lord He made you

I'm grateful for the laughter of children
The sun and the wind and the rain
The color of blue in your sweet eyes
The sight of a high ball and train
The moon rise over a prairie
Old love that you've made new
This year when I count my blessings
I'm thanking the Lord He made you
This year when I count my blessings
I'm thanking the Lord He made you

And when the time comes to be going
It won't be in sorrow and tear
I'll kiss you goodbye and I'll go on my way
Grateful for all of the years
I thank for all that you gave me
For teaching me what love can do
Thanksgiving day for the rest of my life
I'm thanking the Lord He made you
Thanksgiving day for the rest of my life
I'm thanking the Lord He made you



*Video*

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Thanksgiving Song

Grateful for each hand we hold
Gathered round this table.
From far and near we travel home,
Blessed that we are able.

Grateful for this sheltered place
With light in every window,
Saying "welcome, welcome, share this feast
Come in away from sorrow."

Father, mother, daughter, son,
Neighbor, friend and friendless;
All together everyone in the gift of loving-kindness.

Grateful for what's understood,
And all that is forgiven;
We try so hard to be good,
To lead a life worth living.

Father, mother, daughter, son,
Neighbor, friend, and friendless;
All together everyone, let grateful days be endless.


Grateful for each hand we hold
Gathered round this table.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Thanksgiving, SeaHawkFan, and thanks for the great video tune.

[luvie]

Wish we could both stay home! :)

Warning...don’t go shopping tomorrow. Ain’t worth it..no way! :)

Nite, Kathy. I’ll be thinking of you too.. Heard that Anchorage hasn’t had any snow. That’s just weird, huh!

[luvie]

Hope you and yours had a lovely day! (((hugs)))

[Fiji Hill]

Turkey Hop--The Robins (1950)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Thanksgiving, Mac...*HUGS*...any turkey left over? How many of you at your gathering?

Thank you for the hymn.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and Happy Thanksgiving.

Did you travel? Have family over?

Thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

[ConorMacNessa]

Thank you very much, LUV - I hope you and yours had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well.

We had our feast this evening at my sister's - it went very well. We had family and a couple of friends - all the food was excellent and the conversation - and a few songs - were memorable.

We gave thanks - life in America is good!


"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

This is the Arabic character "nun" – the first letter of the word "Nazarene." I post it as my avatar in solidarity with people of all faiths suffering persecution at the hands of Islam. Many of them are members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, dating from the days of the Apostles. They endure cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors they, and we, are all "Nazarenes."

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Thanksgiving, Intolerant in NJ....thank you for the beautiful hymn.

[Fiji Hill]

Thanks for the Memory--Charlie & His Orchestra

Thanks for the memory
In every German's mind
When you broke the ties that bind
And dictated a pact called the Treaty of Versailles.
How rotten that was!

Thanks for the memory
Of British aims divine,
French Negroes on the Rhine,
The food blockade and misery
All over the German Reich.
What an injustice that was!

Many iare the times that you feasted,
And many are the times that we fasted.
For you, it was swell while it lasted.
You did have fun, but harm was done.

Well, thanks for the memory.
It gives us strength to fight
For freedom and for right.
It might give you a headache, England,
And hurt you so much.

[PROCON]

"Remember When" a great song, now that my kids are all grown it's even a stronger reminder of how short life is, and to appreciate all God gives us.

BTW...

How' bout them Seahawks!!

[Fiji Hill]

1942 Turkey in the Straw--Carson Robison

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Thanksgiving, CS.

The Beatles ~ With A Little Help From My Friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRjJ_dSmKfA

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and rest well, Luv.....

You heard right...we have NO snow yet. *sigh* And right now it is 14 degrees.

[Fiji Hill]

Just a Memory--Harold Leonard & His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra (1927)

Just a Memory--Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra (1927)

[PROCON]

(((HUGS))) Ma, had Thanksgiving dinner with sister and BIL and their 2 adult kids. Just now relaxing and FReeping for awhile. Zach couldn't make it as he has to work tomorrow; oh, well good for the boy!

Heading back on Saturday and then both kids and I will do lunch.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Thanksgiving, Fiji, and thank you for the Turkey Hop.

[ConorMacNessa]

Happy Thanksgiving, Kathy!

*HUGS*

We had a mere dozen thankful family and friends present and a 25 pound turkey, along with all the usual accouterments. We didn't even make it into the second side of the turkey. Stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, rolls, green beans Amandine, etc.

Before dinner, a tray of cheeses - Gorgonzola, Brie, Port Salut, and another whose name I've forgotten, dates, figs and and grapes. We warmed up with a Glenmorangie "Nectar D'Or."

Veuve Cliquot Brut with dinner, along with Bogle Old Vine Zinfandel and Oak Ridge Old Vine Petite Sirah.

After dinner, Pumpkin, pecan and cherry pies. A round of Godiva Dark Chocolate Truffles. Then a shot of King's Ginger, a liqueur my BIL found on a recent trip to the UK, a Taylor Fladgate Late Bottled Vintage Port, and finally a few drams of Lagavulin 16 year old Single Malt Islay Scotch.

By the end of the evening I was reciting Middle English poetry and singing old Celtic airs.

But now I must gather my remaining strength to climb the spiral staircase to Boudoir MacNessa.

Good night, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America!


"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

This is the Arabic character "nun" – the first letter of the word "Nazarene." I post it as my avatar in solidarity with people of all faiths suffering persecution at the hands of Islam. Many of them are members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, dating from the days of the Apostles. They endure cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors they, and we, are all "Nazarenes."

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Thanksgiving, Pro...((HUGS))...did you get enough to eat?

Snow? It’s 14 here and NO snow.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Working is a good thing, even tho inconvenient at times. d:o)

Glad you had a good Thanksgiving.

I work tomorrow, too.

[Kathy in Alaska]

A wonderful Thanksgiving, with wonderful memories.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

God Bless you good, Mac. *HUGS* Good night and rest well.
Thanks for helping honor our troops, past and present.
Thank you for your service to our country.