Brighter Days in Store

DESCRIPTION: "I will sing of the Mormons, the people of the Lord, Since the time that Joseph prayed for light." "'Tis the song, the sigh of the Mormons, Hard times... have pressed us sore." But the more they suffer, the more the church grows
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (Cheney-MormonSongs)
KEYWORDS: religious hardtimes bug | Mormons
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 91-92, "Brighter Days in Store, or, Brigham Young's Hard Times Come Again No More" (1 text)
Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle, p. 89, "(Every time that the wicked has tried to overthrow)" (1 text)
Roud #10842
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Hard Times Come Again No More" (tune)
NOTES [112 words]: I am filing the Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle text here with some hesitation. The last two verses are unquestionably this, but the first verse, "Each time the wicked have tried to overthrow And to bring the work of God to naught, The way has been opened for the Saints of God to escape A ram in the thicket was caught" is almost impossible to sing to "Hard Times Come Again No More." The second verse also needs some prodding to fit that tune.
The ram caught in the thicket is surely an allusion to Genesis 22, where Abraham is ordered to sacrifice his only legitimate son Isaac, but then God says, "Ha-ha, only joking, murder that poor innocent trapped ram instead." - RBW
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