The Mormon Pioneer Songbook

Description

The story of the Mormon Pioneers in word and song. Compiled and edited by William I. Kaufman; with musical commentary by Thomas E. Cheney, American Folklore Society of Utah; and an introduction by Richard P. Condie, Emeritus Conductor of the Morman Tabernacle Choir. A superb treasury of thirty-three folksongs expressing the spirit and zeal of those early Mormon Pioneers. Splendidly produced, this book brings together in one collection hitherto scattered folk material, and chronologically arranges of the Trek West; 2. Colonization of the Great Basin; and 3. Mormon Customs and Thought. Includede are guitar chord symbols for each song, and illustrations produced especially for the book by artist Ric Estrada.

Lyricists:
George Hicks • Thomas Cheney • F. Keller • Charles Walker • Isaac Nash • Richard Condie • William Clayton • John Taylor • Levi Hancock • Myron Crandall • George Careless • William Phelps • Eliza Snow

Contents:

• A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief

• The Upper California

• On the Way to California

• Tittery-Irie-Aye

• Come, Come Ye Saints

• The Ox-Team Trail

• Root, Hog, or Die

• Whoa, Haw, Buck and Jerry Boy

• The Mormon Battalion Song

• The Bullfight on the San Pedro

• The Lonesome Roving Wolves

• This is the Place

• The Handcart Song

• The Campfire Meeting

• St. George and the Drag-on

• Brighter Days in Store

• The Seagullts and Crickets

• Johnston's Army Song

• Once I Lived in Cottonwood

• Echo Canyon

• The Utah Iron Horse

• All Are Talking of Utah

• Pioneer Day 1870

• Mottos on the Wall

• Blue Mountain

• Don't Marry the Mormon Boys

• Waste Not, Want Not

• Passing Through

• Curtains of Night

• None Can Preach the Gospel Like the Mormons Do

• Just Set a Light

• The Spirit of God Like a Fire is Burning

• Zack, the Mormon Engineer