Journeying Song for the Pioneers to the Mountains, A

DESCRIPTION: "The time of winter now is o'er, There's verdure on the plains," so the Mormons will continue their journey to Zion. The "go to choice and goodly lands" which "Will yield us wine and oil," and will be safe from Gentiles "who thirst to shed our blood"
AUTHOR: Eliza R. Snow (1804-1887) (source: Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1968 (Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest)
KEYWORDS: travel home food | Mormons
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, pp. 255-256, "A Journeying Song for the Pioneers to the Mountains" (1 excerpt)
NOTES [69 words]: For background on Eliza R. Snow, see the notes to "Mormon Battalion Song (I)."
This is a rather odd song in its promise of "wine and oil." Grapes, and wine, were indeed hallmarks of the Promised Land in the Hebrew Bible (see, e.g. Deut. 32:14 and its talk of fine wine, or Num. 13:23, with the great cluster of grapes the spies brought back to the Israelite camp) -- but Mormons weren't supposed to drink alcohol! - RBW
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