They Cry "Deluded Mormons"

DESCRIPTION: "They cry 'Deluded Mormons' in all the world around, And the reason why they do so is very far from sound." "True Saints rally, around the standard come, Away in Utah's valleys, our lovely mountain home." The world is wicked; the Saints will make an Eden
AUTHOR: probably William Willes
EARLIEST DATE: 1872 (Willes, The Mountain Warbler)
KEYWORDS: religious home | Mormon
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 189, "They Cry 'Deluded Mormons'" (1 text, tune referenced)
ADDITIONAL: William Willes, _The Mountain Warbler: Being a Collection of Original Songs and Recitations, by WIlliam Willes, with a Selection from Other writes, for the Use of Choirs, Sabbath Schools and Families_, Deseret News Book and Job Establishment, Salt Lake City, 1872 (available on Google Books), pp. 11-12, "They Cry Deluded Mormons" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Aunt Sally" (tune)
NOTES [98 words]: This sounds pretty thoroughly paranoid, although, to be fair, the Mormons really were persecuted. But the lack of introspection is stunning.
Not everything in the Willes book is by Willes (and, we might add, it's texts only; no tunes are printed; despite its title, it's not what I would call a book for choirs!). Willes generally attributes poems written by others, and this has no attribution. On the other hand, he put a "W. W." after some of his own poems, and it doesn't have that, either. It's almost certainly by Willes, but perhaps one could argue that it has not been proved. - RBW
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File: LDC189

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