This Is the Place (I)

DESCRIPTION: ""Come all you people if you want to hear A story about a brave pioneer, Brigham Young is the pioneer's name...." He gathers people from all over the world. He brings them to Utah. "He ought to go to heaven with his 19 wives."
AUTHOR: Myron Crandall (source: Cheney-MormonSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle)
KEYWORDS: travel derivative pioneer | Mormon Brigham Young
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 70-72, "This Is the Place, or, Brigham Young, the Western Pioneer" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle, pp. 327-329, "This Is the Place" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 561-563, "This Is the Place" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10830
NOTES [22 words]: Neither Cheney nor Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle says so, but this is clearly derived from "Casey Jones" or one of its relatives. - RBW
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