Christmas has a whole canon of music devoted to the holiday, and there are plenty of spooky songs to soundtrack Halloween each year — but the amount of tunes out there dedicated to Thanksgiving are slim to none.

However, there are quite a few songs about the concept of gratitude in general with which we can supplement the Thanksgiving songbook, and for that, we give thanks. Artists of all generations and musical backgrounds have penned meaningful, relatable tributes to the subject over the years, whether with respect to saying “thanks” for what they’ve got or to saying “thanks, but no thanks” to what they’d be more grateful not to have. There are all sorts of ways to show your appreciation, not to mention the variety of different languages with which you can tell someone “Gracias,” “Merci

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