Mormon Bishop's Lament, The

DESCRIPTION: "I am a Mormon biship, and I will tell you what I know, I joined the confraternity some forty years ago." He met Brigham Young and learned Mormon ways. The Mormons killed many. Brigham is dead. Most of his sixteen wives are too. Mormons will go to hell
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1910 (Lomax, Cowboy Songs)
KEYWORDS: warning clergy death homicide | Mormon
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 237, "The Mormon Bishop's Lament" (1 text)
Roud #8009
File: LDC237

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