"Over the River and Through the Woods" is a song from A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. It is sung by Charlie Brown, Sally Brown, Linus van Pelt, Marcie, Peppermint Patty, and Franklin.
The song is derived from a poem by the American poet, novelist and journalist Lydia Maria Child that was first published under the title "The New England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day" in the 1844 anthology Flowers for Children. The poem was later set to music by an unknown composer. Child's original poem has twelve stanzas. Only four of those, however, are usually sung and only two are sung in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Child's original poem reads, "Over the river and through the wood", rather than "Over the river and through the woods". Although the second line of the song is now most commonly sung as, "To Grandmother's house we go", Child's original poem reads, "To Grandfather's house we go",
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- Over the river and through the woods
- To grandmother'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 woods
- Oh, how the wind does blow
- It stings the toes
- She bites the nose
- As over the ground we go