# Favorite Thanksgiving Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 23, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869 "2019-11-23T14:26:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/1 "2019-11-23T14:26:48Z")
Meaning a song that explicitly thanks a person, God, their lucky stars or whatever. For me this would include: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) – Sly and the Family Stone I Thank You - ZZ Top Thank God For You - Sawyer Brown ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/2 "2019-11-23T15:48:23Z")
“Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto…” ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/3 "2019-11-23T16:28:16Z")
We Gather Together To Ask The Lord’s Blessing - hymn Come, Ye Thankful People, Come - hymn Thank You For Being A Friend - Andrew Gold Thank You Very Much - The Scaffold Thank You Very Much - Scrooge soundtrack ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/4 "2019-11-23T16:54:42Z")
Thank You - Led Zeppelin ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/5 "2019-11-23T21:46:09Z")
You Made Me So Very Happy - David Clayton-Thomas (there’s at least one _Thank You, Girl_ in there IIRC) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/6 "2019-11-23T22:25:20Z")
Thank God I’m a Country Boy - John Denver ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/7 "2019-11-23T22:54:32Z")
Natalie Merchant – Kind and Generous I want to thank you For your generosity The love and the honesty That you gave me ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/8 "2019-11-24T01:41:26Z")
_Thanks for the Pepperoni_ **George Harrison** ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/9 "2019-11-24T01:51:51Z")
I Thank My Lucky Stars - Eddy Arnold ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/10 "2019-11-24T14:51:23Z")
The Beatles’ “Thank You Girl.” ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/11 "2019-12-03T08:58:34Z")
Wayne Newton’s Danke Schoen! ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/12 "2019-12-03T13:09:00Z")
No explicit “thanks”, but I’ve long associated “Simple Gifts” w/ the holiday. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/13 "2019-12-03T13:43:17Z")
Seconding “We Gather Together to Ask the Lord’s Blessing.” I sang it in an Episcopalian choir a lifetime ago, and it still chokes me up. When I was teaching English as a Foreign Language, I would also have my students learn “Over the River and Through the Woods” each Thanksgiving. ---
**Author:** ![BlueInfinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BlueInfinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueInfinity)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-thanksgiving-songs/843869/14 "2019-12-03T13:48:07Z")
Does “For the Beauty of the Earth” count?