I just said, 'Good luck.' " Now that, my friends, is cause for giving thanks. "I asked the captain what his name was and how come he didn't drive a truck," Dylan sings. But as he's setting sail, he sees three more ships heading into shore. Dylan busts out, orders Crepe Suzette, gets taken by a French girl, leaps a hot dog stand, gives up on raising bail and heads back to the ship alone. "I think I'll call it America," Dylan proclaims, with a wheeze, when they stumble across a new continent. Anyhow, what follows may be one of Dylan's most inspired moments as a lyricist, a hilarious trip down Dylan's stream of consciousness on a whaling ship with Captain Arab (rhymes with Ahab). In which the great Bob Dylan sets the scene with "I was riding on the Mayflower when I thought I spied some land." And then, he has to stop and start again because he can't stop giggling. If we've missed some, let us know and we will do our best to add them to the list before the turkey's gone. Here's a list of 20 songs to get you started. A playlist of songs about Pilgrims and Indians, the two groups who came together for that very first Thanksgiving celebration. How, then, does one program music for Thanksgiving? Simple. And one could argue that the Band's "The River Hymn" may be describing a Thanksgiving celebration. The Kinks' Ray Davies had that song "Thanksgiving Day" a few years back. What do rock and rollers have against Thanksgiving? In the 60-odd years since Elvis Presley blew Sam Phillips' skirt up with his take on Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's "That's All Right," you'd think they could've come up with at least a box set's worth of classic rock-and-roll Thanksgiving songs.Īrlo Guthrie set "Alice's Restaurant Massacre" two Thanksgivings ago, thereby explaining why the dump was closed.
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