oh a lone pumpkin
 

so is anyone else forced to sing this song over and over and over again on thanksgiving for the benefit of their elders?

I had completely forgotten about this song, and I've never heard it anywhere else.

just wanted to see if anyone on here knew anything about it before I google'd it.

Never heard of it!
Don't like pie any way....rather have something chocolate :D

theres surprisingly little on it on google it seems :(

Pumpkin song
 

OMG I was doing a serch for this song...and I can't believe I found it...I sang it to my children and now my grandchildren...I am 61 years old and learned this in grammar school....lol:)

I've never heard it or of it. But I like it, and I also like various forms of edible pumpkin.

I guess if he was really the lone pumpkin on the vine, it seems the cook had no choice since it was just him around there. Or maybe there were other pumpkins on nearby vines but she chose him? In any case, congratulations to the pumpkin.

First i´ve ever heard of it. What is your ethnic heratige? Perhpas its a regional thing? Id like to know.

cute, but I've never heard of it before.

I sang this too!
 

Hi Marie and others - For some wierd reason that pumpkin song was going through my head all day. I guess I was trying to figure out what to make for dinner on Thanksgiving and the song was there. I learned it in grammar school also and I was so proud of myself for remembering all of the words since it's been forever since I was in grammar school. So I googled it to make sure that I did remember correctly and there was your forum - first hit.

Where did you go to school? We're the same age - 61. Maybe we were in the same class. I was living in B'klyn NY at the time. You are brave - I wasn't sure I wanted to sing the song to my granbabies. But it's really cute!:)

Bit late but here are some pumpkins I carved in recent years.. Not my designs I hasten to add.

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/4518/img1463vq4.jpg

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7427/img1469ts1.jpg

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I can't believe I found this song. It's been something I think of from time to time, well, especially at Halloween. However, having learned it at St. James parochial school in Brooklyn, I doubt it was taught for Halloween; probably for Thanksgiving. I was taught by nuns. As a matter of fact, grade 4a was actually in a room in the convent (shudder). There are soooooo few favorable/bearable memories I carry from either of the catholic grade schools I attended. This song (I only remembered or was taught the first half of it....I think); this song is one.

I asked my mom about this, and she's never heard of it.
(she's 65, and was born in Buffalo, raised in East Aurora, NY)

What's the tune like? Any comparisons to other tunes?

My mother used to sing this every Thanksgiving, so it became a family tradition. She grew up in New York (Queens & Hempstead, I believe) and would have been 84 this year. I wish I remembered the tune. It is not a song that can officially be found in print from my research so far. Would love to know where it originated, when and who wrote it. We simply called it the Thanksgiving Song. Our version is basically the same but with some variance:

FIRST VERSE:
Oh, a lone pumpkin grew on a green pumpkin vine.
He was round, he was fat, he was yellow.
"No silly Jack-O-Lantern shall I make," said he.
"I'm determined that I'll be a useful fellow."

REFRAIN:
For the glory of the Jack is in the Lantern
From the gatepost where he grins set up so high.
And the glory of the turkey is the drumstick,
But . . . the glory of the pumpkin is the pie.

SECOND VERSE:
So he raised up his head when the cook came along,
And she chose him at once as the winner.
His fondest dream came true -- he was proud pumpkin pie
And the glory of the big Thanksgiving dinner.

REPEAT REFRAIN:
For the glory of the Jack is in the Lantern
From the gatepost where he grins set up so high.
And the glory of the turkey is the drumstick,
But . . . the glory of the pumpkin is the pie.

Is Ziadel dead or what? I haven't seen him since like 2007.

heresy! the pinnacle in pumpkin cuisine is the pumpkin pie!

Sorry for my question...

...Is Halloween the same as Thanksgiving? Dressup as pirates and chase the English outta dodge?

Haha. "Yeah, fuck the English!"

Halloween is the day where young kids and very few adults dress up in a costume of their choosing, and they walk around the neighborhood saying "trick or treat," then they're given candy. You'll find the grown-up dress up parties in some places. Don't give candy to a 45 year old saying "trick or treat" though. People don't get off work.

Thanksgiving is a day of giving thanks. Not religious at all. Most people eat turkey. Best holiday there is, plenty of food and family. People do get off work.

Yeah dress up here too, Last time we went as jailbirds, LOL.
I was with a family on thanksgiving in Tarrytown, really sweet friendly people.. but still thought, why?

(I actually have a frozen turkey) but it's for christmas.