1 A song of thanksgiving! We’ve garner’d the wheat,
We’ve gather’d the vintage, all purple and sweet;
Today we may feast for the reaping is done,
The crown of fulfilment our labors have won.

Chorus:
A song of thanksgiving! To Him be the praise,
Who has pledged to His people full strength for their days.
A song for thanksgiving! We honor the name
Of the blessed Jehovah thro’ ages the same.

2 And over the land is the blessing of God,
The banners of peace wave in beauty abroad;
In freedom of conscience the home is secure,
What the fathers bequeath’d to the children of God. [Chorus]

3 Thank God for the schools where the little ones throng,
For their sweet silver voices in story and song;
Thank God for the promise of hope in their eyes,
To serve Him when they to our places shall rise. [Chorus]

4 Thank God for the gospel which carries afar
The tidings once gleaming in Bethlehem’s star;
Thank God that the desert grows bright with the rose,
As o’er its waste spaces life’s glad river flows. [Chorus]