My Pioneer Day wish for the day: let’s not forget the song as the pioneers themselves<\/em> actually sang it:<\/p>\n Ye Saints who dwell on Europe’s shore For you must cross the raging main For some must push and some must pull And long before the valley’s gained And then with music and with song For some must push and some must pull And a personal note of thanks to all those noble Danes and other Scandinavians who, seeking Zion, made the trek across the ocean and settled in Ephraim, Monroe, and other Sanpete County towns, and proceded to mostly marry one other for the next five generations. I wouldn’t have my dear half-Danish wife, Melissa Madsen Fox, otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My Pioneer Day wish for the day: let’s not forget the song as the pioneers themselves actually sang it:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPrepare yourselves for many more
\nTo leave behind your native land
\nFor sure God’s judgments are at hand–<\/p>\n
\nBefore the promised land you gain
\nAnd with the faithful make a start
\nTo cross the plains with your handcart!<\/p>\n
\nAs we go marching up the hill
\nSo merrily on the way we go
\nUntil we reach the valley-o!<\/p>\n
\nWe will be met upon the plains
\nWith music sweet and friends so dear
\nAnd fresh supplies our heart to cheer–<\/p>\n
\nHow cheerfully we’ll march along
\nAnd thank the day we made a start
\nTo cross the plains with our handcart!<\/p>\n
\nAs we go marching up the hill
\nSo merrily on the way we go
\nUntil we reach the valley-o!<\/p>\n