Sego Lily

DESCRIPTION: "Greeting to thee, Sego Lily, Blossom of the sagebrush desert, Lend us thy blessing dear." The singer asks its story: Did God send it to Utah as a pioneer? Will it be in heaven if the singer goes there?
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (Cheney-MormonSongs)
KEYWORDS: religious flowers | Mormon Utah
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 73-74, "Sego Lily" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #12588
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Gift of the Sego Lily" (subject of the Mormon lily)
NOTES [77 words]: The sego lily is a popular symbol in Utah; a Washington Post story ("This is Utah's new flag -- and here's why more states are mulling redesigns" by Kim Bellware; March 25, 2023) said that they are the flowers in the old Utah state flag. Of course, the reason the Post had the story was that Utah was planning to change its flag, mostly because it was too complicated. So the lilies are gone, but that doesn't really change their significance to the state. - RBW
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File: ChMS073

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