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This is an encore presentation of my post on GOOD KING WENCESLAS (originally aired 11/27/2009), but the information has been recently updated.
Since today (12/26/2009) is the Feast of Stephen, the day Good King Wenceslas looked out, today’s the day to celebrate Wenceslas’ Goodness!
When I was a kid, Christmas music was ALWAYS playing at Christmastime, but the experience of the carols and songs seemed to reside way back in the subconscious. Until recently when I started to give the seasonal songs serious thought, I was always just vaguely aware of them, enjoying my favorite albums, singing the first couple of lines for each tune and humming the rest as I went about my holiday activities.
“Good King Wenceslas,” with its hardy beat and medieval flavor, is one of my favorites…But I could never have sung more than the first verse. It wasn’t until I spied the carol as an illustrated children’s book, that I really read the words and discovered that the song has a wonderful message for everybody, that the song is actually a mini-play, and that it is a winter song, not just for the holidays.
The first Singable Picture Book that I found for this carol is by Christopher Manson who has become one of my favorite illustrators. His pictures are woodcuts hand painted in rich colors and are extensively researched which give the pictures not just beauty but an authenticity that makes the book deeply satisfying.
Completing the experience are paragraphs of historical information about the lyricist John Mason Neale (1818-1866) and Wenceslas, Duke of Bohemia (who lived in the 10th c.) and sheet music.
Another notable illustration of “Good King Wenceslas” is illustrated by Tim Ladwig. I love this version for its sweeping, dramatic pictures. You get a sense of the King and Page’s struggle, trudging through wind and snow, to deliver help for the Poor Man who gathered twigs for a fire. You can feel the cold and determined effort. I also like how this book’s first pages create a context for the song and wrap it up with a sweet illustrated conclusion. This book contains sheet music and a brief but informative page about the song’s history.
Geraldine McCaughrean has written the story version of the song in the majestic book “Wenceslas,” illustrated with luminous gold dabbed paintings by Christian Birmingham. No book I’ve seen yet has so captured Wenceslas as a King, strong and good. The lyrics to the song are printed in the back of the book along with a brief history of the song and the man.
John Mason Neale, a scholar, writer and clergyman, originally published the words in 1853. He set the words to an old tune “Tempus adest floridum,” a carol of springtime also known as “The Flower Carol.” This carol (its latin words and music) was originally published in a book of Swedish Carols in 1582, but the tune is probably much older.
“The Flower Carol” has wonderfully expressive words (“Spring has now unwrapped the flowers!”) and would make an excellent subject for an illustrated children’s book. Just think if the tune you know for “Good King Wenceslas” and SING!
FLOWER CAROL
“Tempus adest floridum”
Spring has now unwrapped the flowers,
Day is fast reviving
Life in all her growing powers
Towards the light is striving:
Gone the iron touch of cold,
Winter time and frost time,
Seedlings, working trough the mould,
Now make up for lost time.
Herb and plant that, winter long,
Slumbered at their leisure,
Now bestirring, green and strong,
Find in their growth a pleasure:
All the world with beauty fills
Gold the green enhancing;
Flowers make glee among the hills,
And set the meadows dancing.
Through each wonder of fair days,
God himself expresses;
Beauty follows all his ways,
As the world he blesses:
So, as he renews the earth,
Artist without rival,
In his grace of glad new birth,
We must seek revival.
Earth puts on her dress of glee;
Flowers and grasses hide her;
We go forth in charity,
Brothers all beside her;
For, as man this glory sees,
In the awakening season,
Reason learns the heart’s decrees,
And hearts are lead by reason.
Praise the Maker, all ye saints;
He with glory girt you,
He who skies and meadows paints,
Fashioned by your virtue;
Praise him, seers, heroes, kings,
Heralds of perfections;
Brothers, praise him, for he brings
All to resurrection!
The multi-talended folk singer Jean Ritchie sings a lovely version of this song on the album “Carols for All Seasons,” track 10. I just love to hear this song with its original words (well, at least in English) accompanied by lap dulcimer, recorder and harpsichord. And it is enthralling to participate in the ancient folk tradition of repurposing tunes and communicating through song.
Wenceslas was the Duke of Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. He was a Christian in a time and place that was mostly pagan. He was known for his generosity to the poor.
The Feast of Stephen is celebrated the day after Christmas. Stephen is considered the first Deacon of the Catholic Church. One role for a deacon is to care for the poor, so the purpose of the day is to give food, money and supplies to the needy. In many parts of the world, it is also called “Boxing Day.”
The song also mentions “St. Agnes’ Fountain.” St. Agnes of Bohemia lived in the 13th century. She was born to royalty, but spent her life not in the luxury of her station, but working to help others.
In the song, when King Wenceslas looks out, he sees someone in need on the Feast of St. Stephen, so he sets out to do what he can to help.
The text of John Mason Neale’s song is a little play. The parts can actually be played out or sung by different people in a group. Children love it if grown-ups dress the parts and participate in the action. The characters in the carol are the Narrator, Good King Wenceslas, the Page, and the Poor Man.
GOOD KING WENCESLAS
(Narrator)
Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay round about,
Deep and crisp and even.
Brightly shown the moon that night,
Though the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,
Gathering winter fuel.
(King)
Hither, page, and stand by me.
If thou know it telling:
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?
(Page)
Sire, he lives a good league hence,
Underneath the mountain,
Right against the forest fence
By Saint Agnes fountain.
(King)
Bring me flesh, and bring me wine.
Bring me pine logs hither.
Thou and I will see him dine
When we bear them thither.
(Narrator)
Page and monarch, forth they went,
Forth they went together
Through the rude wind’s wild lament
And the bitter weather.
(Page)
Sire, the night is darker now,
And the wind blows stronger.
Fails my heart, I know not how.
I can go no longer.
(King)
Mark my footsteps my good page,
Tread thou in them boldly:
Thou shalt find the winter’s rage
Freeze thy blood less coldly.
(Narrator)
In his master’s step he trod,
Where the snow lay dented.
Heat was in the very sod
Which the saint had printed.
Therefore, Christian men, be sure,
Wealth or rank possessing,
Ye who now will bless the poor
Shall yourselves find blessing.
I like to point out to the kids that the Poor Man is gathering logs for a fire to keep his home warm, that the King wants to give the Poor Man meat, wine and firewood, and that when the Page is trodding through the snow behind the King, the Page complains of getting so tired and cold. The King tells the Page that to walks in his footsteps. The Page does so, feels the warmth from the King, and is able to carry on.
For singing along, if you don’t want to sing this one a capella, I suggest track 3 from “Classical Christmas” released by Allegro in 2004. The key is comfortable for singing. The pace is a little quick for turning the pages, but it can certainly be done.
Another instrumental, totally different in style with an “Um-pah” tuba beat, is from The Trail Band, “And Old Fashioned Christmas” (Track 3). This whole album is my current favorite to have playing while tinkering around my kitchen. It’s joyous and fun.
“Good King Wenceslas” A Singable Book, a Winter Song and a Mini-Play (including Lyrics, Song History, and Sing Along Tracks)
Posted on: November 27, 2009
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When I was a kid, Christmas music was ALWAYS playing at Christmastime, but the experience of the carols and songs seemed to reside way back in the subconscious. Until recently when I started to give the seasonal songs serious thought, I was always just vaguely aware of them, enjoying my favorite albums, singing the first couple of lines for each tune and humming the rest as I went about my holiday activities.
“Good King Wenceslas,” with its hardy beat and medieval flavor, is one of my favorites…But I could never have sung more than the first verse. It wasn’t until I spied the carol as an illustrated children’s book, that I really read the words and discovered that the song has a wonderful message for everybody, that the song is actually a mini-play, and that it is a winter song, not just for the holidays.
The first Singable Picture Book that I found for this carol is by Christopher Manson who has become one of my favorite illustrators. His pictures are woodcuts hand painted in rich colors and are extensively researched which give the pictures not just beauty but an authenticity that makes the book deeply satisfying.
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Good King Wenceslas
Traditional Tune (Tempus adest floridum)
Words by John Mason Neale
Illustrated by Christopher Manson
Completing the experience are paragraphs of historical information about the lyricist John Mason Neale (1818-1866) and Wenceslas, Duke of Bohemia (who lived in the 10th c.) and sheet music.
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Good King Wenceslas
Traditional Tune (Tempus adest floridum)
Words by John M. Neale
Illustrated by Tim Ladwig
(This book has sheet music in the back and a page of historical information about the song)
I love this version for its sweeping, dramatic pictures. You get a sense of the King and Page’s struggle, trudging through wind and snow, to deliver help for the Poor Man who gathered twigs for a fire. You can feel the cold and determined effort. I also like how this book’s first pages create a context for the song and wrap it up with a sweet illustrated conclusion. This book contains sheet music and a brief but informative page about the song’s history.
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Good King Wenceslas
Traditional Tune (Tempus adest floridum)
Words by John M. Neale
Illustrated by Pauline Baynes
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Geraldine McCaughrean has written the story of the song in the majestic book “Wenceslas,” illustrated with luminous gold dabbed paintings by Christian Birmingham. No book I’ve seen yet has so captured Wenceslas as a King, strong and good. The lyrics to the song are printed in the book along with a brief history of the song and the man.
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Addendum 12/5/2012
I found this at a bookstore just yesterday. The story of the song, beautifully illustrated, with factual information and a DVD performance by Jane Seymour (and a cast of many, many, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra)…and the song is in there, too:
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Good King Wenceslas (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
(This book comes packaged with Jane Seymour’s performance on DVD)
Written for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir by DAvid T. Warner
Original Song Lyrics by John Mason Neale
Original Song Sung to Traditional Tune (Tempus adest floridum)
Illustrated by Omar Rayyan
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A YouTube preview of the DVD, here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBGVoxKIUNU
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John Mason Neale, a scholar, writer and clergyman, originally published the words in 1853. He set the words to an old tune “Tempus adest floridum,” a carol of springtime also known as “The Flower Carol.” This carol (its latin words and music) was originally published in a book of Swedish Carols in 1582, but the tune is probably much older.
A Wikipedia article about “Piae Cantiones,” the collection of carold in which “Flower Carol” was originally published in 1582, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piae_Cantiones
For a post (including historical information about the song and a book I made for singing-along with the “Flower Carol,” illustrated with artwork by Giuseppe Arcimboldo who painted in the time that Tempus adest floridum was first published) about the “Flower Carol” and Temus adest Floridum, click here:
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/the-flower-carol-illustrate-and-sing-with-arcimboldos-spring-summer-and-other-fancy-finery/
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Vocabulary
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King Wenceslas
Wenceslas was the Duke of Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. He was a Christian in a time and place that was mostly pagan. He was known for his generosity to the poor.
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Feast of Stephen
The Feast of Stephen is celebrated the day after Christmas. Stephen is considered the first Deacon of the Catholic Church. One role for a deacon is to care for the poor, so the purpose of the day is to give food, money and supplies to the needy. In many parts of the world, it is also called “Boxing Day.” In the song, when King Wenceslas looks out, he sees someone in need on the Feast of St. Stephen, so he sets out to do what he can to help.
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St. Agnes Fountain
The song also mentions “St. Agnes’ Fountain.” St. Agnes of Bohemia lived in the 13th century. She was born to royalty, but spent her life not in the luxury of her station, but working to help others.
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The text of John Mason Neale’s song is a little play. The parts can actually be played out or sung by different people in a group. Children love it if grown-ups dress the parts and participate in the action. The characters in the carol are the Narrator, Good King Wenceslas, the Page, and the Poor Man (but the poor man is only mentioned, he doesn’t speak).
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GOOD KING WENCESLAS
Traditional Tune (Tempus adest floridum)
Words by John M. Neale
(Narrator)
Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay round about,
Deep and crisp and even.
Brightly shown the moon that night,
Though the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,
Gathering winter fuel.
(King)
Hither, page, and stand by me.
If thou know it telling:
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?
(Page)
Sire, he lives a good league hence,
Underneath the mountain,
Right against the forest fence
By Saint Agnes fountain.
(King)
Bring me flesh, and bring me wine.
Bring me pine logs hither.
Thou and I will see him dine
When we bear them thither.
(Narrator)
Page and monarch, forth they went,
Forth they went together
Through the rude wind’s wild lament
And the bitter weather.
(Page)
Sire, the night is darker now,
And the wind blows stronger.
Fails my heart, I know not how.
I can go no longer.
(King)
Mark my footsteps my good page,
Tread thou in them boldly:
Thou shalt find the winter’s rage
Freeze thy blood less coldly.
(Narrator)
In his master’s step he trod,
Where the snow lay dented.
Heat was in the very sod
Which the saint had printed.
Therefore, Christian men, be sure,
Wealth or rank possessing,
Ye who now will bless the poor
Shall yourselves find blessing.
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I like to point out to the kids that the Poor Man is gathering logs for a fire to keep his home warm, that the King wants to give the Poor Man meat, wine and firewood, and that when the Page is trodding through the snow behind the King, the Page complains of getting so tired and cold. The King tells the Page that to walks in his footsteps. The Page does so, feels the warmth from the King, and is able to carry on.
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For singing along, if you don’t want to sing this one a-capella, I suggest track 3 from “Classical Christmas” released by Allegro in 2004. The key is comfortable for singing. The pace is a little quick for turning the pages, but it can certainly be done.
Preview the song, here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SCFNMK/ref=dm_dp_trk3?ie=UTF8&qid=1288295781&sr=301-1
Another instrumental, totally different in style with an “Um-pah” tuba beat, is from The Trail Band, “And Old Fashioned Christmas” (Track 3). This whole album is my current favorite (as of writing 12/25/2009) to have playing while tinkering around my kitchen. It’s joyous and fun.
Preview the song here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QKXWWW/ref=dm_dp_trk3?ie=UTF8&qid=1288295682&sr=8-1
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I like this YouTube for singing-along
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVob4l5m4Ps
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An majestic instrumental by Percy Faith orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_6lf6Z_qKM
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An interesting Wikipedia article about “Good King Wenceslas” (and “Flower Carol”) here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_King_Wenceslas
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A Pinterest.com page dedicated to Good King Wenceslas:
http://pinterest.com/revjoelle/wenceslas/
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FLOWER CAROL
“Tempus adest floridum”
Traditional Words and Tune
Illustrated with Art by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Book Assembled by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus
To view or print a copy of the BOOKLET, click here:
flower carol arcimboldo
To view or print a copy of the ONE PAGER, click here:
flower carol arcimboldo one pager
This item is for classroom, home, or library use only.
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A page for the Sing Books with Emily SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR
GOOD KING WENCESLAS
I love this song which was written to the tune of an ancient flower carol and can also function as a short play with 3 characters. Once you unravel who is saying what, and what is happening, this becomes a wonderful fable, too, fitted lovingly at the end with a satisfying, universal and timely moral.
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Good King Wenceslas
Traditional Tune (Tempus adest floridum)
Words by John M. Neale
To view or print the SBWE Singable Advent Calendar sheet for “Good King Wenceslas” click here:
SBWE Advent Calendar Good King Wenceslas
This item is for home use only.
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Addendum, 12/26/2012
I really do so love Good King Wenceslas, the song, its story and its origins. Today is the Feast of St. Stephens. We can celebrate by singing and doing something good. It also gives us a chance to peek into spring on this cold, snowy day, since the song’s tune was originally written for a carol praising the flowers of spring…
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RELATED POSTS:
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Good King Wenceslas Looked Out on the Feast of Stephen…that’s today!
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/good-king-wenceslas-looked-out-on-the-feast-of-stephen-thats-today/
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THE FLOWER CAROL (tempus adest floridum), A SINGABLE PICTURE BOOK
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/the-flower-carol-tempus-adest-floridum-a-singable-picture-book/
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CHRISTMAS
A Collection of Singable Picture Books that celebrate CHRISTMAS!
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/singable-picture-books-for-christmas/
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EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
A list of SPBs with fun and sneakily educational content. The kids won’t even know they’re learning!
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/singable-picture-books-with-sneaky-educational-content/
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SUNDAY SCHOOL SONGS
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/sunday-school-songs-in-singable-picture-books/
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WINTER
Singable Picture Books for Winter
Some of these are sung at Christmastime, but this is a list of songs about Winter that you can sing all season long!
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/singable-picture-books-for-winter/
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SING BOOKS WITH EMILY SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/the-sing-books-with-emily-singable-advent-calendar/
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GOOD KING WENCESLAS, A SINGABLE PICTURE BOOK
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/good-king-wenceslas-a-singable-book-a-winter-song-and-a-mini-play-with-a-message-inluding-lyrics-song-history-and-sing-along-tracks/
“Over the River and Through the Wood” A Singable Book, Lyrics, History and Sing Along Tracks
Posted on: November 20, 2009
“Over the River and Through the Wood ” is the classic Thanksgiving song. It is too bad that Thanksgiving has not inspired more! But we can have lots of fun singing this one.
This poem can be found in a number of illustrated books and poetry compilations for children.
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Over the River and Through the Wood
Traditional Tune
Poem by Lydia Maria Child
Illustrated by Matt Tavares
See a YouTube about Matt Tavares’ book, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YjFHBi2-os
Post for this special illustration:
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/a-new-ride-over-the-river/
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Over the River and Through the Wood
Traditional Tune
Poem By Lydia Maria Child
Illustrated by Christopher Manson
I love the woodcut illustrations in Christopher Manson’s outing, published in 1993. This volume also includes an informative “Note About the Text.” The colors are rich and give fanciful representation to an idealized 19th century village Thanksgiving. In one two-page spread, children ice skate on a frozen stream. In another, the dapple-gray horse pulls the red sleigh through a covered bridge. This version, however does not include the entire poem.
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Over the River and Through the Wood
Traditional Tune
Poem By Lydia Maria Child
Illustrated by Brinton Turkle
A book illustrated by Brinton Turkle (1974) has a fuller representation of the poem, with stanzas that I have not found anyplace else. These pencil sketches and watercolors are realistic and pretty. Although this book is out of print, you can find it at used book sellers online.
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Over the River and Through the Wood
Traditional Tune
Poem By Lydia Maria Child
Illustrated by David Catrow
I spied an illustration by David Catrow, who is a master of illustrating humorous song parodies. It looks like a family trying to make it through holiday traffic, in a car that is packed to the rivets.
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Childcraft, Volume 1, The Poems of Early Childhood (1954)
Published by Field Enterprises Educational Corporation
Edited by J. Morris Jones
Words and Music by Various Artists
Illustrated by Various Artists
(This amazingly wonderful poetry compilation, Volume 1 of 15 Volumes of the Childcraft set, is filled with poetry that can be sung. The illustrations now appear wonderfully vintage, by numerous artists. If you can find a copy of this book, you will not be disappointed in its contents)
“Thanksgiving Day” (AKA “Over the River and Through the Wood“), written by Lydia Maria Child and sung to a traditional tune is printed and illustrated on p. 142
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An Extra Special Outing…
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Over the River and Through the Wood
Traditional Tune
Poem by Lydia Maria Child
Illustrated by Matt Tavares
Matt Tavares has created a fantastic version of the song “Over the River and Through the Wood.” The pictures of the snowy 19th century New England town and landscape are beautiful, setting the blues and grays of snow and horse with the vivid reds of the sleigh and brick houses. He’s livened these lyric illustrations also with a story of a dog sometimes teasing and sometimes chasing after the sleigh holding in his teeth a boy’s hat that had flown off in the wind.
When I first saw the book, I didn’t buy it, put off by the book’s subtitle, “The New England Boy’s Song about Thanksgiving Day.” I wondered why the illustrator would make it a song for a boy, girls can enjoy it, too! But, turns out, this is Lydia Maria Child’s own subtitle for her poem. I hope girls won’t thing this book can’t be for them, too…it certainly can be! It’s a song and book everyone can enjoy.
Besides the great pictures, this book gets special accolades from me for illustrating the entire poem (not just a few select verses). The whole poem is here and it can all be sung to the familiar tune we all know…though, with some verses, you’ve got to learn the rhythms to fit the words.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YjFHBi2-os
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When singing this song, some of the verses can be tricky, because you have to alter the rhythm a little to fit in the words. After a little practice, you’ll get it.
This song was originally written as a poem by Lydia Maria Child in the 1840′s and seems to have been set to this jolly traditional tune later in the 19th century.
Lydia Maria Child
Read an informative biography of Lydia Maria Child here: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/childlydiamaria/a/lydiamariachild.htm
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Below are the poem’s original 12 verses. Most illustrated versions of the poem, pick and choose from these, but do not include the entire original. I found the complete poem online at: http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blchildthanksgiving.htm:
OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOOD
Poem by Lydia Maria Child
Over the river, and through the wood,
To Grandfather’s house we go;
The horse knows the way,
To carry the sleigh,
Through the white and drifted snow.
Over the river, and through the wood,
To Grandfather’s house away!
We would not stop
For doll or top, For it is Thanksgiving Day.
Over the river, and through the wood,
Oh, how the wind does blow!
It stings the toes,
And bites the nose,
As over the ground we go.
Over the river, and through the wood,
With a clear blue winter sky,
The dogs do bark,
And children hark,
As we go jingling by.
Over the river, and through the wood,
To have a first-rate play -
Hear the bells ring,
“Ting a ling ding!”
Hurray for Thanksgiving Day!
Over the river, and through the wood,
No matter for winds that blow
Or if we get
The sleigh upset
Into a bank of snow.
Over the river, and through the wood,
To see little John and Ann;
We will kiss them all,
And play snowball,
And stay as long as we can.
Over the river, and through the wood,
Trot fast my dapple grey!
Spring over the ground,
Like a hunting-hound,
For ’tis Thanksgiving Day!
Over the river, and through the wood,
And straight through the barnyard gate;
We seem to go
Extremely slow,
It is so hard to wait!
Over the river, and through the wood -
Old Jowler hears our bells;
He shakes his pow,
With a loud bow-wow,
And thus the news he tells.
Over the river, and through the wood,
When Grandmother sees us come,
She will say, “O, dear,
The children are here,
Bring pie for everyone.”
Over the river, and through the wood,
Now Grandmother’s cap I spy!
Hurrah for the fun!
Is the pudding done?
Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!
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For singing along with an instrumental track (although this is another traditional tune which is nicely sung a capella), I suggest track 9 on Smoky Mountain Band’s “Christmas in the Smoky Mountains,” which you can find on i-tunes. The track is played exactly to sing the full 12 verses of the poem.
Preview the song, here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QM8HCU/ref=dm_dp_trk9?ie=UTF8&qid=1288293849&sr=8-1
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A page for the Sing Books with Emily SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR
OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOOD:
I have found this oldie but goodie on a few Christmas albums, so I thought we could enjoy singing it once again (after Thanksgiving) for Advent Holiday enjoyment!
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Over the River and Through the Wood
Traditional Tune
Poem by Lydia Maria Child
To view or print the SBWE Singable Advent Calendar sheet for “Over the River and Through the Wood,” click here:
SBWE Advent Calendar Over the River (Christmas)
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Related Posts
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OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOOD, A SINGABLE PICTURE BOOK
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/over-the-river-and-through-the-wood-a-singable-book-lyrics-history-and-sing-along-tracks/
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POETRY SINGABLE POETRY IN COMPILATIONS
An list of singable poems from compilations of poetry for children
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/singable-poetry-a-list-of-poems-that-can-be-sung-from-illustrated-compilations-of-poetry-and-singable-picture-books/
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POETRY, SINGABLE POETRY IN INDIVIDUALLY ILLUSTRATED SINGABLE PICTURE BOOKS
A list of individually illustrated poems that have been set to music and can be sung
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/poems-individually-illustrated-spb/
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EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
A list of SPBs with fun and sneakily educational content. The kids won’t even know they’re learning!
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/singable-picture-books-with-sneaky-educational-content/
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WINTER
Singable Picture Books for Winter
Some of these are sung at Christmastime, but this is a list of songs about Winter that you can sing all season long!
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/singable-picture-books-for-winter/
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SING BOOKS WITH EMILY SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/the-sing-books-with-emily-singable-advent-calendar/
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CHRISTMAS
A Collection of Singable Picture Books that celebrate CHRISTMAS!
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/singable-picture-books-for-christmas/
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THANKSGIVING
A Song List to Help Us Celebrate Thanksgiving!
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/thank-heavens-singable-picture-books-for-thanksgiving/
