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Today is the day when we are thankful for many thing. Home. Family. Loved ones. Stan Freberg.<\/p>\nToday is the day when we are thankful for many thing. Home. Family. Loved ones. Stan Freberg.<\/p>\n
Yup. Stan Freberg, who reminded us in his 1962 album “The United States of America<\/em>” that this is national “Take an Indian to Lunch” week. I wonder if he would have to change the words these days, although the sentiment is equally true…<\/p>\n Take an Indian To Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n Take an Indian to lunch this week Make a feathered friend feel fed this week Two, four, six, eight, who do we tolerate Take an Indian to lunch this week Take an Indian to dine this week Stan Freberg also reminded us about how the first Thanksgiving really went…<\/p>\n The Luncheon Under The Trees<\/strong><\/p>\n Narrator:<\/strong>Needless to say, the luncheon there under the trees was a great success, and a good time was had by Puritan and Indian alike. Everything came off beautifully with the exception of one minor catastrophe.<\/p>\n Mayor:<\/strong> What do you mean you cooked the turkey, Charlie? May all my friends and readers have a wonderful Thanksgiving, and remember the holiday for what it originally was: shopping later that evening at the Mall of Plymouth for those stylish belt buckles. Stay safe!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is the day when we are thankful for many thing. Home. Family. Loved ones. Stan Freberg. Yup. Stan Freberg, who reminded us in his 1962 album “The United States of America” that this is national “Take an Indian to Lunch” week. I wonder if he would have to change the words these days, although Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[165,442],"class_list":["post-8782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status","tag-freberg","tag-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8783,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions\/8783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nShow him we\u2019re a regular bunch this week
\nShow him we\u2019re as liberal as can be
\nLet him know he\u2019s almost as good as we<\/p>\n
\nOverlook the fact he\u2019s red this week
\nLet him share our Quaker Oats
\n\u2018Cause he\u2019s useful when he votes
\nTake an Indian to lunch<\/p>\n
\nIndians, Indians, rah; rah; rah<\/p>\n
\nLet him sit right down and munch this week
\nLet\u2019s give in and all do the brotherhood bit
\nJust make sure we don\u2019t make a habit of it<\/p>\n
\nShow him we don\u2019t draw the line this week
\nWe know everyone can\u2019t be
\nAs American as we
\n(After all, we came over on the Mayflower)
\nTake an Indian
\n(Not a wooden Indian)
\nBut a real, live Indian
\nTo lunch!<\/p>\n
\nCharlie:<\/strong> Well, I cooked the turkey, that\u2019s all.
\nMayor:<\/strong> You put our national bird in the oven. Is that correct?
\nCharlie:<\/strong> Yeah, well I, uh \u2026
\nMayor:<\/strong> And all of us had our mouths set for roast eagle with all the trimmings.
\nCharlie:<\/strong> Yeah, well I, uh \u2026
\nMayor:<\/strong> You did a thing like that?
\nCharlie:<\/strong> Well, the two birds were lying there side by side.
\nMayor:<\/strong> The *turkey* was for the centerpiece, Charlie, I mean \u2026
\nCharlie:<\/strong> Well, they looked so much alike that I, uh \u2026
\nMayor:<\/strong> Well, we blew it now. They\u2019re all sitting down at the tables out there.
\nCharlie:<\/strong> Yeah, yeah.
\nMayor:<\/strong> \u2026 starting on their little nut cups already. Just have to switch the birds, that\u2019s all.
\nCharlie:<\/strong> Yeah, well \u2026
\nMayor:<\/strong> Serve them turkey instead of eagle. But it\u2019s kinda scrawny-lookin\u2019, isn\u2019t it?
\nCharlie:<\/strong> Yeah, well I thought I\u2019d stuff some old bread in it and make it look a little fatter.
\nMayor:<\/strong> You do that, OK?<\/p>\n