Utah Program Lyrics

SONG: UTAH THIS IS THE PLACE Utah! People working together Utah! What a great place to be. Blessed from heaven above. It’s the land that we love. This is the place! Utah! With its mountain and valleys. Utah! With its canyons and streams. You can go anywhere. But there’s none that compare. This is the place! It was Brigham Young who led the pioneers across the plains. They suffered with the trails they had to face. With faith they kept on going till they reached the Great Salt Lake Here they heard the words….”THIS IS THE PLACE!” Utah! With its focus on family. Utah! Helps each child to succeed. People care how they live. Each has so much to give. This is the place! Utah! Getting bigger and better. Utah! Always leading the way. New technology’s here…. Growing faster each year. This is the place! Utah! Utah! Utah! THIS IS THE PLACE! SONG: UTAH INDIANS When Whitemen came to Utah The Indian tribes were here. They gathered seeds from grasses Caught fish and hunted deer. Lived in wicki-­‐ups and tepees, Caves and hogans too. They made pots and baskets Each had a job to do. The Utes, Piautes, and Goshutes, Shoshones, Navajo. The Indian tribes of Utah That lived here long ago. Throughout the mountain valleys They lived and hunted game. The Ute tribe is where Utah got is name. SONG: FIRST WHITEMEN IN UTAH 1. Spanish Explorers search to find a way From Santa Fe, New Mexico On to California at Monterey. They traveled through Utah With mountain streams so clear, Impressed with what they saw… All the natural beauty that was here. They explored each new horizon Kept on going every day Went through Utah on their way Didn’t stop and couldn’t stay In their search for Monterey. 2. Father Escalante and Father Domenguez Led the expedition… They tried to find a way to Monterey Kept records and journals… Drew maps of the terrain, They said of Utah Valley… “It’s the most beautiful… in New Spain” They explored each new horizon Kept on going every day Went through Utah on their way Didn’t stop and couldn’t stay In their search for Monterey. SONG: THE RAFTSMEN CALL 1: Là ousqu’y sont, tous les raftsmen? RESPONSE: Là ousqu’y sont, tous les raftsmen? ALL: Dans les chanquiers i’ sont montés. CHORUS: Bing sur le ring! Bang sur le rang! Laisez paser les raftsmen! Bing sur la ring! Bing, bang! CALL 2: Et par Bytown y sont passés, RESPONSE: Et par Bytown y sont passés, ALL: Avec leurs provisions achetées. CHORUS CALL 3: In bark canoes they make their way, RESPONSE: In bark canoes they make their way, ALL: They reach the camp and shout “Hurray!” CHORUS CALL 4: Des “porc an beans” ils ont mange, RESPONSE: Des “porc an beans” ils ont mangé, ALL: Pour les estomacs restaurer. CHORUS CALL 5: Their axes sharp with no delay, RESPONSE: Their axes sharp with no delay, ALL: They swing and strike the tall trees away. CHORUS CALL 6: Que l’Outaouais fut étonné, RESPONSE: Que l’Outaouais fut étonné, ALL: Tant faisait d’bruit leur hache trempé. CHORUS CALL 7: Quand le chanquier fut terminé, RESPONSE: Quand le chanquier fut terminé, ALL: Chacun chez eux sont retourné. CHORUS CALL 8: To greet them come their ladies gay, RESPONSE: To greet them come their ladies gay, ALL: Who help them spend their hard-­‐earned pay. CHORUS SONG: THE HANDCART SONG 1. Ye saints who dwell on Europe’s shore, Prepare yourselves for many more, To leave behind your native land, To cross the plains with your handcart. For some must push and some must pull As we go marching up the hill So merrily on our way we go Until we reach the valley-­‐o. 2. And then with music and with song, How cheerfully we’ll march along, And thank the day we made a start To cross the plains with our handcarts. For some must push and some must pull As we go marching up the hill So merrily on our way we go Until we reach the valley-­‐o. SONG: THE SEAGULLS AND THE CRICKETS 1. The winter of forty-­‐eight had passed, The winter of haunting fears, For famine had knocked at the city gates, And threatened the pioneers. 2. But Spring with its smiling skies lent grace, And cheer to the hosts within, And they tilled their fields with a newborn trust, And the courage to fight and win. 3. Black crickets by tens of millions came, Like fog on the British coast, And the finger of detestation marked, Its course on the Mormon host. 4. T’was seagulls feathered in angle white, And angels they were forsooth. The seagulls there by the thousands came, To battle in very truth. 5. They charged down upon the cricket hordes And gorging them day and night, They routed the devastating hosts And the crickets were put to flight. SONG: UTAH”S IRON HORSE 1. Iron horse draweth neigh, With his smoke nostrils high. Eating fire while he blazes, Drinking water while he grazes. Then the steam rushes out, Whistles loud, “Clear the route,” For the iron horse is coming With the steam in his snout. 2. Build him roads to come on, Make them level for the run, Digging tunnels through the mountains, Turn the currents of the fountains, Bridges build, stations make, Lay the track he will take, For the iron horse is coming With a train in his wake. SONG: THE 29 COUNTIES OF UTAH There are twenty-­‐nine counties in Utah State. We are able to name each one. Learning them all while singing Is easy and its also fun. Box Elder, Beaver…start with the letter B. Cache County and Carbon…start with the letter C. Daggett and Davis and Duchesne…start with the letter D. But the county known as Emery…is the only E. There are twenty-­‐nine counties in Utah State. There’s Garfield and Grand and more. Next we come to Iron…named for iron ore. Juab and Kane…Millard we all know. Morgan and Piute, followed then by Rich. Salt Lake, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier Summit…then Tooele’s next. And the county known as Uintah… We’ll add to our list. There are twenty-­‐nine counties in Utah State Only five more and we’ll be through. Utah, Wasatch, Washington…Wayne and Weber too. All of the counties we have named for you. Singing the counties is lots of fun to do. Twenty-­‐nice counties…some big and small Now…for our favorite one… the county known as SUMMIT Is the best of all!