May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

Cast as a rhyming holiday benediction, the verse playfully catalogs the staples of an American Thanksgiving meal—stuffing, turkey, gravy, yams, and pie—before landing on its comic “kicker”: the wish that the feast won’t “stay off your thighs.” The humor depends on a familiar tension between indulgence and restraint, turning a potentially moralizing idea (dieting, weight gain) into a warm, folksy joke. The sing-song meter and plain diction fit the style of homespun, performance-friendly verse often used in greetings and stage patter, where the point is conviviality rather than literary complexity.