I Post This Song Every Year Jukebox And Open Thread
Thanksgiving Day Parade - Dan Bern
I’m thankful for my magnificent good fortune that covers stuff that I talk about all the time, stuff I know better than to talk about all the time, and, of course, this magnificent community that we’ve somehow stumbled into forging together. Happy Thanksgiving, one and all.
(For the record, the verse where he’s singing about all of the people in the band is easily imagined into a verse that takes its turn to sing about each of us.)
I’ve always identified this song with Thanksgiving.
Thanks
by W. S. Merwin
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are standing by the water thanking it
smiling by the windows looking out
in our directions
back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging
after funerals we are saying thank you
after the news of the dead
whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you
over telephones we are saying thank you
in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators
remembering wars and the police at the door
and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you
in the banks we are saying thank you
in the faces of the officials and the rich
and of all who will never change
we go on saying thank you thank you
with the animals dying around us
our lost feelings we are saying thank you
with the forests falling faster than the minutes
of our lives we are saying thank you
with the words going out like cells of a brain
with the cities growing over us
we are saying thank you faster and faster
with nobody listening we are saying thank you
we are saying thank you and waving
dark though it isReport
See you must understand, I can’t work a nine to five, so I’ll be gone until… well, now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI6MWZrl8v8
I don’t associate this song with Thanksgiving so much as with November (for obvious reasons).Report