The Handcart Song
Author: John Daniel Thompson McAllister; Lucile C. Reading
Composer: John Charles White
Languages (42)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Albanian: Kënga e Karrocave të Dorës
- Bulgarian: Песен за ръчната количка
- Cebuano: Awit sa nagkariton
- Chinese (Simplified): 手推车
- Chinese (Traditional): 手推車
- Croatian: Pjesma o kolicima
- Czech: Píseň o ručních vozících
- Danish: Håndkærresangen
- Dutch: Het handkarrenlied
- English: The Handcart Song
- Estonian: Käsikäru laul
- Fijian: Na Nodra Veitosoyaki
- Finnish: Käsikärrylaulu
- French: La chanson du chariot à bras
- German: Das Lied von den Handkarren
- Greek: Το τραγούδι της άμαξας
- Hungarian: A pionírok éneke
- Icelandic: Handvagnasöngurinn
- Indonesian: Lagu Kereta Dorong
- Italian: Inno dei carretti a mano
- Japanese: 手車の歌
- Kekchi: Saʼ najter tenamit keʼchal
- Khmer (Cambodian): ចម្រៀងក្រុមរទេះរុញ
- Korean: 손수레 노래
- Latvian: Rokas ratiņu dziesma
- Lithuanian: Keliautojų su vežimėliais daina
- Malagasy: Ny hiran’ny mpamaky lay
- Mandarin (Romanized/Pinyin): Shǒutuīchē
- Mongolian: Гар тэрэгтнүүдийн дуу
- Norwegian: Håndkjerresangen
- Polish: Pieśń pionierów
- Portuguese: Canção do Carrinho de Mão
- Romanian: Cântecul cărucioarelor
- Russian: Песня с ручными тележками
- Samoan: O Le Pese I Le Taavaletoso
- Spanish: Pioneros fieles
- Swedish: Handkärresången
- Tagalog: Ang Awitin ng Kariton
- Tahitian: Hīmene nō te tario pūtō
- Thai: เพลงลากเกวียน
- Tongan: Ko Hiva ʻo e Saliote Toho Laló
- Ukrainian: Пісня про ручні візки
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Most common tunes for “The Handcart Song”
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Appearances of “The Handcart Song” over time
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1856 or earlier.
Public domain with caveats (IRI)*
*“When pioneers mov’d to the west…” verse by Lucile Cardon Reading, © 1969 IRI.
Earliest known source: Journal of William Burton (1809–1851) (December 25, 1856).
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net:
Pioneer Songs (1932), 21.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
When pioneers moved to the West, With courage strong they met the test. They pushed their handcarts all day long, And as they pushed they sang this song: 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.
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