Fwd: poem about early settlers in New England surviving on pumpkin

Does anyone have a clue to the poem in the attached note?

Bob

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  • Subject: poem about early settlers in New England surviving on pumpkin
  • From: P* B*
  • Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 20:40:33 -0500
I am looking for a poem that I once saw in an American history textbook
published by Scott Foresman in the 1980s.  The verses could be sung to the
tune of "On Top of Old Smokey" and the lyric described the tough life of New
England colonists and how they ate pumpkin three times a day to survive.

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