---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Evan Stephens
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 21
number: 4
published: 1918-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Evan Stephens, “Teamsters' Chorus,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 4 (February 1918): 338–339."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2104unse
  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: improvementera2104unse
start_page: 338
end_page: 339
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2104unse
  publication_year: 1918
  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 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Teamsters' Chorus

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Teamsters' Chorus

To the Teamster, Peter Garff, who drove the "Welsh Ox Team" in Captain

Rawlin's Train, 1866, with which the Author walked one

thousand miles across the plains.

Words and Music by Evan Stephens.

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Change the expression freely to suit the various lines. Do not sin?

the "Whoa haw, Buck" the same each time. In the last verse the entire last

part should decrease in vigor and speed. Tenderness rather than spright-

liness being most desired. The opportunity for varying the expression is

almost endless. — Author.