A Thanksgiving Song For You

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Copyright Heidi Jackson

Turkey In The Wind

Good-bye Thanksgiving Turkey
Though I never knew you well,
You tasted awesome
And I really liked your smell!
Even when you died,
All the newspapers had to say
Was that you were delicious,
Except with giblet grav-ay.
It seems to me you lived your life
Like a turkey in the wind.
Never knowing who to cling to when it was Thanksgiving
And I woulda liked to have known you when you lived.
Your body made it to the freezer section,
But your head never did.

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