Wait for the Wagon (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Wait for the Wagon" is an American folk song, first popularized in the early 1850s."Wait for the Wagon" was first published as a parlor song in New Orleans, Louisiana, with an 1850 copyright, and music attributed to Wiesenthal and the lyrics to "a lady." All subsequent versions seem to derive from this song.A number of different versions were published the next year.Along the Mississippi River, most were nearly identical to the 1850 publication. Peters, Webb and Co. in Louisville, Kentucky, published it as "Wait For The Wagon: A Song For The South West" with no attribution to music or lyrics.