“Over the River and Through the Wood” is a popular Thanksgiving song on a poem by Lydia Maria Child, originally published in Child’s Flowers for Children in 1844. The composer is unknown.
It is about childhood memories, when families get together at grandparents’ home for Thanksgiving. While today we sing “to grandmother’s house we go”, the original version refers to the grandfather.
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Over the river and through the wood,
to Grandmother’s house we go;
the horse knows the way to carry the sleigh
through the white and drifted snow.
Over the river and through the wood,
oh, how the wind does blow!
It stings the toes and bites the nose,
as over the ground we go.
[Over the river and through the wood,
and straight through the barnyard gate.
It seems that we go so dreadfully slow;
it is so hard to wait.
Over the river and through the wood,
now Grandma’s cap I spy.
Hurrah for fun, the pudding’s done;
hurrah for the pumpkin pie!]
Over the river and through the wood,
to Grandmother’s house we go;
the horse knows the way to carry the sleigh
through the white and drifted snow.
Over the river and through the wood,
oh, how the wind does blow!
It stings the toes and bites the nose,
as over the ground we go.
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