Whenever I Think about Pioneers
Author: Della Dalby Provost
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1. Boys: Whenever I think about pioneers,n 11. (Boys) Whenever I think about pioneers,
2I think of brave women and men 2I think of brave women and men.
3I like to remember that children came too 3I like to remember that children came, too;
4I would like to have been a child then. 4I would like to have been a child then.
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n 62. Girls: Yes, I’d like to have played all the games that they played n 62. (Girls) Yes, I’d like to have learned to play the games they played
7And joined in their fun. 7And joined them in their fun.
8And I’d like to have slept under bright starry skies 8And I’d like to have slept under bright starry skies
9When each day’s measured journey was done. 9When each day’s measured journey was done.
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n 113. Boys: I would like to have hunted for rabbits and dear, n 113. (Boys)* I would like to have sung with the pioneers
12Herded cattle and known all the joys 12When voices rang out loud and strong,
13Of riding along in the wind and the sun, 13“Hosanna, Hosanna, we’ve found our new home,”
14As did most of the pioneer boys. 14Joy and thankfulness filling their song.
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n 164. Girls: It would seem like a picnic to join with the girls n 164. (Girls)* I would like to have sung with all the pioneers,
17In each fam’ly chore. 17With voices loud and strong,
18And I think that I’d like a ceiling of sky, 18“Hosanna, Hosanna, we’ve found our new home,”
19And the green prairie grass for a floor. 19Joy and thankfulness filling their song.
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t 215. All: I would like to have sung with the pioneers t
22When their voices rang out loud and strong,
23“Hosanna, Hosanna, we’ve found our new home.”
24Joy and thankfulness filled their song.
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266. All: I would like to have sung with the pioneers,
27with their voices loud and strong
28“Hosanna, Hosanna, we’ve found our new home”
29Joy and thankfulness filled their song.
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