Over the River and Through the Wood: Difference between revisions

 

The poem was eventually set to a tune by an unknown composer. The song version is sometimes presented with lines about [[Christmas]], rather than Thanksgiving. For instance, the line "Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day!" becomes "Hurrah for Christmas Day!". As a [[Christmas song]], it has been recorded as "A Merry Christmas at Grandmother's". Although the modern Thanksgiving holiday is not always associated with snow (snow in late November occasionally occurs in the northern states and is rare at best elsewhere in the United States), [[New England]] in the early 19th century was enduring the [[Little Ice Age]], a colder era with earlier winters.<ref>{{cite web|title=Timeline Middle Ages and Early Modern Period - Environmental History Resources: The Little Ice Age (ca. 1300 - 1870)|url=http://www.eh-resources.org/timeline/timeline_lia.html|website=Environmental History Resources|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208141137/http://www.eh-resources.org/timeline/timeline_lia.html|archivedate=2015-02-08|dead-url=no}}</ref>

 

==Poem==