The turkey(Thanksgiving song)

from An evening with the Moptops by Bæsj 74

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Includes a sample from the song "Marie Antoinette was the teacher's pet"

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Episode 6: Thanksgiving special:

Laurie has a school project on Judaism that she hands home to Jimmy. Jimmy suddently gets excited about jewish culture as his great grandmother had a friend who was jewish, after Jimmy's calculation this makes him 1/5 Jewish. For Thanksgiving Jimmy decides to invite a Hasidic jewish family over for dinner. Billy's songwriitng talent has improved and after performing a song called "Marie Antoinette was the teacher's pet" at school during lunch he decides to write a song Klezmer song for the evening. He is so satisfied with his work that he goes online and finds a band to come and perform the song that he has written. Little did he know that he rented a terrible band and the song is ruined, but that doesn't mean thanksgiving is ruined.

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Verse 1

It's the last days of november
and all the years I can remember
Starving folks are getting thinner
while we're at thanksgiving dinner
but for us that has never mattered
We're always filled with celebration
to eat food is our obligation
The tender meat won't break our jaws
and we love cranberry sauce
and the family is always gathered

Chorus

It's for the turkey
It's the best meal of all year
better than beef jerky
It's something for everyone to share
I just want everyone to see
that turkey is the food for me

Verse 2

Brusslesprouts and peas mean nothing
I'm more excited for the stuffing
We remember everybody's names
while watching the thanksgiving games
but no one keeps tracks on the score
The oven is never working
but who'se gonna cut the turkey?
We'll talk about the pioneers
and how we have been this year
then say what we're thankful for

Verse 3

Every year has been all the same
and this tradition got sort of lame
but this year we got some better news
we invited hasidic jews
Now we get two good things in one
That is why I wrote this song
and everyone can sing along
Let all our sadness be gone
and let's all put our moptops on
and have some moptop family fun

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from An evening with the Moptops, released December 4, 2013
Written by René Read hard

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