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"'''The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day'''",<ref name="poetryfoundation.org">[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173198 "The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day" at Poetry Foundation]</ref><ref>[http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/poetry-pairing-the-new-england-boys-song-about-thanksgiving-day/?_r=0 Doyne, Shannon. "Poetry Pairing | ‘The New-England Boy’s Song about Thanksgiving Day’", ''New York Times'', November 21, 2013]</ref> also known as "'''Over the River and Through the Wood'''", is a [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving]] poem by [[Lydia Maria Child]],<ref name="wayhist">{{cite web|url=http://wayhistsoc.home.comcast.net/~wayhistsoc/whs/Lydia_Maria_Child/lydia_maria_child.htm |title=Lydia Maria Child|publisher= Wayland Historical Society|accessdate=November 20, 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930230945/http://wayhistsoc.home.comcast.net/~wayhistsoc/whs/Lydia_Maria_Child/lydia_maria_child.htm|archivedate=2015-09-30}}</ref> originally published in 1844 in ''Flowers for Children'', ''Volume 2''.<ref name="child">{{cite web|url=http://www.bostonliteraryhistory.com/chapter-4/lydia-maria-child-%E2%80%9C-new-england-boy%E2%80%99s-song-about-thanksgiving-day%E2%80%9D-flowers-children-ii|title=Lydia Maria Child and the Development of Children’s Literature|year=2012|publisher=Boston College: bostonliteraryhistory,com|accessdate=27 September 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126063159/http://www.bostonliteraryhistory.com/chapter-4/lydia-maria-child-%E2%80%9C-new-england-boy%E2%80%99s-song-about-thanksgiving-day%E2%80%9D-flowers-children-ii|archivedate=2013-11-26|dead-url=no}}</ref>
Although many people sing "to grandmother's house we go", the author's original words were "to grandfather's house we go".<ref name="child" /> Many people also mistakenly refer to the "Wood" in the song as plural "Woods" rather than singular.
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