Mormon Creed, The

DESCRIPTION: "The Mormon Creed I'll now explain, Which you may quickly learn, 'Tis 'Mind your own business.'" The Mormons sometimes forget it themselves, but they learned it from "The prophet of the Lord." It will bring them eternal life
AUTHOR: probably William Willes
EARLIEST DATE: 1872 (Willes, The Mountain Warbler)
KEYWORDS: derivative | Mormon
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 216, "The Mormon Creed" (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. 42-43, "(no title)" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "In Days When We Went Gypsying" (tune)
NOTES [74 words]: 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: LDC216

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