--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Stephens, Evan collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 20 number: 8 published: 1917-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Evan Stephens, "On the Pioneer Trail We’re Marching," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 8 (June 1917): 735–737.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2008unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2008unse start_page: 735 end_page: 737 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2008unse publication_year: 1917 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # On the Pioneer Trail We’re Marching On the Pioneer Trail We're Marching Written for the Y. M. M. I. A. Junior Eoys. Evan Stephens. March time, f \§ a- p— m ?—*. — p\- ~~± »T*-»» I 0 r-# — 0-0-0-0 f 0-t CX. HUff — Ht -»=»zj-g-«- — 0-0-h^'-0-0-0 -0- 4V -4 1 1— r r S- -y •# -s>- w i • ■] 0 I f ^ 1. On the Pi-o-neer Trail we're marching, In the footsteps of our 2. On the Pi-o-neer Trail we're marching, In their footsteps firm and 3. On the Pi-o-neer Trail we're marching,Knowing every step is Eejrain — Stars and Stripes a - bove us, With its field of az - ure Kg .»• g ri*' N I P F 9— -. — V-, — Ffh^=4V-4 1 1 , ^ — ^ — * — \\* 0 — 0 *-■ — -1 P| 7Z=g-ttl=t==t==t= -5 4^0 ■—»■- .0 K2- -0- -0- 3tt= m -0: 0-0-0- • — Y0— 0-0-0-0— -M— -.» — • — .»— -J 736 IMPROVEMENT ERA & :* sires. true: sure blue, O'er the paths they marked and f dlowed, With their We their children, still de - ter - miced, Forward To lead true and safe if followed With a Side by side with hosts who love us, We are — — l- X V j— h— *— -I I— -0-0-0- *=$*=: it: &0- j 0U0-0 —I a ■»7 » -P2__ poco lit. (2nd time only). Fine. 4—4- 8— ' ' 1 ' — r— I n ~N — s~r — i — -A '— * — i^ — toil and bright campfires. ev - er to pur - sue. will and pur-pose pure. marching firm and true. m Marked so well that all mi?ht Forward in the cause and Knowing that their trail will — 0 — # — F-i ~->m- — 0 — t — :_t=-^=E=^z==Ettr=r_E=| :t=P-t-t # -r-P± 1 I * 4—4- -jL-_l--t — t-j poco rit. (2nd time only) Fine. • — • — • (:«=iiM=Ff= j — I — g^ — , — S^= i • 4 ~t ON THE PIONEER TRAIL WE'RE MARCHING m »=^=f= ?=-R:r' £±4 m q===i^==v:pq:=i=: — SlS^ g— # t % ^ #-f c ^ sillj— t «=f=: g»- I ** i fol - low, O'er the steep and rugged way, Making camp on pur-pose Of their jour-ney thro'out life; Like our sires to lead us Safe and sure to per-fect rest, When the weary U I' ' glJ— IFF — ^^EQ= 0\0 0 r-| 1 1 r-\~0\0-0 I—I 0 3 poco ri£. J9.S. ifep*^ hill or hoi - low, At the close of ev - ery day. With the march and conquer, In the right, whate'er the strife, march is end - ed, With life's sunset in the west. ^ 3F pt hE^=^E=^^^E^?=U~^ £M£ Correction: — In the song "Beloved," published in the April Era, two errois occur. In the sixth measure the last note of the second tenor should be F, and the lower bass for the same chor ' in the same measure should be B flat.