Come, Ye Thankful People, Come is most often sung in the United States at Thanksgiving. It’s a harvest-is-over song that uses bringing the crop from the fields as an illustration of God bringing His saints home after they’ve completed their earthly responsibilities.
Here’s our arrangement of this hymn for eight handbells and piano.
Come, ye thankful people, come, / raise the song of harvest home;
all is safely gathered in, / ere the winter storms begin.
God our Maker doth provide / for our wants to be supplied;
come to God’s own temple, come, / raise the song of harvest home.