Kansas Emigrant's Song

DESCRIPTION: "We crossed the prairies as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West as they the East The Homestead of the free." The singers will make the Bible "our van," and will plant and subdue the prairie
AUTHOR: Words: John Greenleaf Whittier (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1876 (Kirwin Chief, accordng to Cohen)
KEYWORDS: home travel farming
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, p. 498, "Kansas Emigrant's Song" (1 text)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 443-444, "The Kansas Emigrant" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #V60799
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Auld Lang Syne" (tune, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
File: CAFS2498

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