All Are Talking of Utah

DESCRIPTION: "Who'd ever think that Utah would stir the world so much? Who'd ever think the Mormons were widely known as such?" The singer is happy that "the Mormons have a name." "We bees are nearly filling the hive of Deseret... For all are talking of Utah."
AUTHOR: "Ieuan" (John Davis), according to Cheney-MormonSongs
EARLIEST DATE: 1867 (Jan. 30, 1867 Deseret News, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest); 1868 (The Bee-Hive Songster, according to Cohen)
KEYWORDS: home nonballad
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah, #243, "All Are Talking of Utah" (1 text plus an excerpt, tune referenced)
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 108-109, "All Are Talking of Utah" (1 text, tune referenced)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, p. 601, "All Are Talking of Utah" (1 text)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, 232-233, "All Are Talking of Utah" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10849
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Marching Through Georgia" (tune, according to Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah)
File: CAFS2601

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