Carrot Greens

DESCRIPTION: "The other night I had a dream, I dreamt that I could fly." He meets St. Peter at the gate of heaven, but all they it is "Good old carrot greens, Corn bread and buttermilk and good old carrot greens." He has the same meal with Moroni
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (Cheney-MormonSongs)
KEYWORDS: food humorous | Mormon
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 145-146, "Carrot Greens" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, pp. 268-269, "Carrot Greens" (1 text)
Roud #4491
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Greens" (lyrics, subject)
cf. "Turnip Greens" (lyrics, subject)
NOTES [106 words]: Roud lumps this with the song I've indexed as "Greens." I flatly don't see it; that is a song about food, with no religious references; this is basically a religious song. It is probably related to, indeed derived from, "Turnip Greens," but this has been rewritten enough that I've split them. I wouldn't argue much with someone who lumped them.
In Mormon legend, the Angel Moroni was credited with showing Joseph Smith the gold tablets that formed the basis for his revelation (Claudia Lauper Bushman and Richard Lyman Bushman, Building the Kingdom: A History of Mormons in America, Oxford University Press, 1999, 2001, pp. 4-5). - RBW
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