Once I Lived in Cottonwood

DESCRIPTION: "Once I lived in Cottonwood and owned a little farm, When I was called to Dixie it did me much alarm." On his way to "Utah Dixie" his wagon breaks down and everyone is exhausted. The land will not grow cotton. Life is miserable in the new place
AUTHOR: George R. Hicks? (source: Cheney-MormonSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1870 ("The Keepapitchinin," according to Cheney-MormonSongs)
KEYWORDS: work travel home horse hardtimes farming
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah, #230, "Once I Lived in Cottonwood" (2 texts)
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 118-120, "Once I Lived in Cottonwood" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 248-249, "Once I Lived in Cottonwood" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST Hubb230 (Partial)
Roud #8014
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Georgia Volunteers" (tune, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
NOTES [56 words]: Apparently based on a real event in which the Mormon Church sent a resident of the relatively fertile Cottonwood region to St. George in southwest Utah, which was far less pleasant. St. George was the subject of surprisingly many Mormon songs; For the town itself, and other songs about it, see the notes to "Saint George and the Drag-On."
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File: Hubb230

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