Handcart Song (Missionary), The

DESCRIPTION: "No purse, no scrip they bear with then, But cheerfully they start, And cross the plains a thousand miles, And draw with them a cart." "Israel must be gathered soon." The missionaries set out on their appointed task traveling with their handcart
AUTHOR: Philllip Margetts (source: Cheney-MormonSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1857 (Millenial Star, according to Cheney-MormonSongs)
KEYWORDS: money religious travel | Mormon missionary handcart
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 66-67, "The Handcart Song (Missionary)" (1 text, tune referenced)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 200-201, "The Handcarts, III" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10828
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Handcart Song (I)" (subject)
cf. "The Handcart Song (II)" (subject)
cf. "Handcarts" (subject)
cf. "Oh! Susanna" (tune)
NOTES [48 words]: For background on the migration to Zion (Utah), and the handcarts the Mormons used because they had no other means, see the notes to "The Handcard Song (I)."
It became a strong part of their faith, though, so when missionaries went out, they apparently turned to handcarts once again. - RBW
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File: ChMS066

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