California (III)

DESCRIPTION: "On Zion's land there shall be rest For all the Saints that's here oppress'd." "To California's land we'll go, Where, from the mountains, wine doth flow." "Zion's band" will leave their homes for a better place, for which they thank the Lord
AUTHOR: Elder John Parry (source: Cheney-MormonSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1849 (Millennial Star, according to Cheney-MormonSongs)
KEYWORDS: travel home wine | Mormon
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 57-59, "California" (1 text)
Roud #10826
NOTES [28 words]: It should be noted that the Mormon migration was to Utah; they never got near California, even in the larger sense in which that term was sometimes used in the 1840s. - RBW
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File: ChMS057

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