Lyr Add: Those Pioneers

Subject: Lyr Add: THOSE PIONEERS
From: JenEllen
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 02:35 PM

THOSE PIONEERS
Words and Music by Nina Folsom Moss 1830
(sung as a ladies trio)

They left their homes (they left their homes)
Loved one's and all
To heed salvation's luring call (the luring call)
What sorrow they (what sorrow they)
In meekness bore
They passed it by (they passed it by)
Who could do more?

They came by ox (they came by ox)
Teams hand carts too
No train was there
To bring them through (to bring them through)
To Indian lands (to Indian lands)
And desert blue
To make them there (to make them there)
A home anew

They builded well (they builded well)
In mountains high
Sang praises to their God most high (their God most high)
He was their choice (he was their choice)
He led them through
They e'er remain (they e're remain)
--ing firm and true

CHORUS:
We cannot hope (we cannot hope)
To e'er repay
In what we do (in what we do)
Or what we say (or what we say)
So to the faith (so to the faith)
Hold fast remain
Their efforts shall (their efforts shall)
Not be in vain (not be in vain)