Ben Rector - The Thanksgiving Song Lyrics

Ben Rector Lyrics

"The Thanksgiving Song"

Familiar highways
Lined with leaves turned brown
Making my way
Back into my hometown

Funny how this all looks different, but it feels the same
Like how life never stops changing but some things never change

So fill your plate and fill your drink
And fill this house with family
The kind of love that all these years can't wash away
Cause the older that I get I see that life is short and bittersweet
Thank God for this Thanksgiving Day

Watching football
Watching families grow
The old kid's table
All have kids of their own

Starting to see my grandfather in my nephew's eyes
Mom still can't talk about him and not almost cry

So fill your plate and fill your drink
And fill this house with family
The kind of love a thousand miles can't wash away
Cause the older that I get I see that life is short and bittersweet
Thank God for this Thanksgiving Day

So fill your plate and fill your drink
Put your dishes in the kitchen sink
And let the leftover year just wash away
Cause we made it through, I do believe, the longest year in history
Thank God that it's Thanksgiving Day

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Writer(s): Benjamin Rector

"The Thanksgiving Song" is the first single off of Ben Rector's album "A Ben Rector Christmas". He told about the idea, "When I started putting together the Christmas album, I realized I hadn't ever heard a Thanksgiving song. I feel like everyone has an emotional connection and a lot of memories around Thanksgiving, just like they do Christmas, so I did my best to write a song that honored that. I hope this song captures the magic and nostalgia that we all look forward to at Thanksgiving. I also secretly hope that this becomes the official theme song for Thanksgiving (this is both based on that I think the song is a very good Thanksgiving song and also that it is the only Thanksgiving song)."

"I wanted to give it a chance to get out into the world before the rest of the record, and hopefully give people a little more time to hear and enjoy it," told Ben Record PEOPLE about this song, "I also wanted to give Christmas music purists who want to save Christmas music until after Thanksgiving something to listen to and get in the holiday spirit."

EP: "A Ben Rector Christmas" (2021)

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