Upon Our Fields of Corn | Pilgrim Thanksgiving | 1928 McConathy

🍒🍎🫜[Lyrics below] This little Pilgrim Thanksgiving Day song, with its Christian message and quite quaint melody with its 4/4 time signature that could be viewed as psalm-like, but then yet not because of its unusual tonal intervals, was published in 1928:33 in "The Music Hour: Second Book" by McConathy, Osbourne, 1875-1947 (https://archive.org/details/musichour.... The music is by L.Leslie Loth, set to the lyrics of Eleanor Alletta Chaffe. It is meant for the lower school grades.

The illustration is a vintage postcard.

Here are the words:

Upon our fields of corn and grain
Made ripe by earth and wind and rain,
The same sun shines that made them glad,
Each little Pilgrim lass and lad.

Long, long ago the Pilgrims bent
Their head to thank the God who sent
The harvest ripened by the sun,
The evening rest when day was done.

And they who bowed their heads above
The feast made fair by work and love,
Passed on to us the grace to give
Our thanks to Him who made us live.

La la la... repeat.

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