A short bit of the tune is on the website I posted. The song is not in DT, so here it is:


BLACK HILLS WALTZ

Here, far in the realm of Missouri
I sit and sing and tell thee a story
Of how many trials I have crossed o'er
Before I found this dwelling in peace.

Here in my grove, where water is springing,
My ears are charmed to hear the birds singing
With songs so sweet, they keep the grove ringing,
While here at home I live and have peace.

Here in my fields all things are growing,
And on the prairie I have been mowing
That I may have feed to keep my stock growing
While here at home I live and have peace.

The ground is covered here with strawberries
And in the grove, the plums and the cherries,
And I will thank my God and be merry
For giving me this dwelling in peace.

May we love God forever and ever
For peace bestowed upon the believer
And turn from Him, O never, O never,
But always love the spirit of peace.

Levi Hancock, 1830s?, (early settler in Jackson Co., MO), music by Hal Cannon of the Deseret String Band, based on an old tune. Levi Hancock wrote "The Bullfight on the San Pedro;" he was a member of the famous Mormon Battalion of the "Mexican" War. @Mormon @religion @waltz


Notes from Cathy Barton and Dave Para: We learned this song from a visitors' introductory film at the Mormon visitors' center in Independence, Mo. We easily recognized Hal Cannon of the Deseret String Band as the singer. Levi Hancock, a prominent Mormon settler in Jackson County in the early 1830s, is credited with writing the poetry, which Hal set to an old tune.

http://www.bartonpara.com/discog/missouri/mormon.htm