Decoration Day (disambiguation)
Decoration Day refers to traditions of cemetery decoration and ritual, including:
- Decoration Day (Appalachia and Liberia), a living tradition of cemetery decoration and ritual which arose by the 19th century
- Decoration Day (Canada), a Canadian holiday
- Decoration Day is also the former name of Memorial Day, a United States holiday.
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Decoration Day traditions have also been the topic of works of art, including:
- Decoration Day (album), a 2003 album by Drive-By Truckers
- Decoration Day (film), a 1990 American film based on a novel by John William Corrington
- "Decoration Day", the second movement of A Symphony: New England Holidays by American composer Charles Ives
- "Decoration Day" (song), a song by Sonny Boy Williamson I, later performed by John Lee Hooker on the album It Serve You Right to Suffer
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