Mormon King, The

DESCRIPTION: "O hark, kind friends, while I do sing About Brigham Young, the Mormon King, Who swears that he'll do everything Out in Salt Lake City." But he can't intimidate Yankees. They will show him "that we've got laws."
AUTHOR: Words: G. W. Anderson
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Vernon, Yankee Doodle Doo, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: warning | Mormon
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 214-215, "The Mormon King" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #1458, p. 99, "The Mormon King" (1 reference)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The King of the Cannibal Islands" (tune) and references there
NOTES [62 words]: I would presume this dates from the period of the Utah War in the late 1850s, when the United States was trying to suppress the Mormons. They of course failed to do so, though the Mormons eventually were induced to give up polygamy. The dating is reinforced by the fact that Thomas Andrews, who put out a broadside of this piece, stopped printing soon after the Utah War. - RBW
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File: LDC214

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