Looking for the official song of Thanksgiving
Some historians take on Thanksgiving here. Or you could go with this. Doesn’t matter much.
If Thanksgiving be a fake holiday, why don’t we hand out cards, like on the fake holiday Valentine’s Day? (Thanksgiving: not q conspiracy from Hallmark. Is it a conspiracy by Butterball?)
Okay. Here’s the theme song for your Thanksgiving. Just to annoy you. If you know the song, or even the artist, the bombasticity and pomposity of it will inflict you. Yes. Iron Maiden. But in my mind it goes more like: “WHITE MAN CAME! Took our LAND!”:
White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need
We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free?
Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom a stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack
Run to the hills run for your lives
Run to the hills run for your lives
Soldier blue on the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whisky and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old
Run to the hills run for your lives
(repeat to end)
What else could you go with? Would you rather go with Alice’s Restaurant? (You can get anything you want at… Alic… let’s stick with the Iron Maiden absurdity.)