Handcarts

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, our faith goes with our handcarts, They have our hearts' best love; They're a novel way of traveling, Devised by God above, so sing Hurrah for the camp of Israel! Hurrah for the handcart scheme! Hurrah! hurrah! It's better far Than wagon or ox team."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1873 (Stenhouse, Rocky Mountain Saints, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest); 1945 (American Folklore 58)
KEYWORDS: religious travel
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah, #210, "Handcarts" (1 short text)
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, p. 253, "Handcart Song" (1 text)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 199, "The Handcarts, II" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10892
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Handcart Song (I)" (subject)
cf. "The Handcart Song (II)" (subject)
cf. "The Handcart Song (Missionary)" (subject)
cf. "A Little More Cider" (tune, according to Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest and Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
NOTES [27 words]: For background on the migration to Zion (Utah), and the handcarts the Mormons used because they had no other means, see the notes to "The Handcard Song (I)." - RBW
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File: Hubb210

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