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Yes with their pilgrims who you’ll meet in town squares reaching out to you to hear about the Word.

But also in their own back yard, the awe-inspiring landscape of Utah.

Surely the work of God.

Where the Mormons are set to open up their HQ, the fascinating Temple Square in Salt Lake City between April and October, 2027.

Temple Square, for those who haven’t been, is a five-block community that includes historic buildings.

Salt Lake of the Earth

Say your prayers: The Temple

The Salt Lake Temple, gardens, museums, monuments, libraries, and pavilions.

The square’s renovation project started in 2029 and is now in its final stage.

Once the temple has been re-dedicated, it will only be open to members of the LDS church.

However, leading up to the open house, all visitors (including non-LDS members) are invited to visit the west side of Temple Square.

Including areas surrounding the Salt Lake Tabernacle, the FamilySearch Library and the Church History Museum.

As well as the recently re-opened Assembly Hall found in the southwest corner of the square.

Now if you’re like us and like to explore a destination by going to where the locals play and pray.

Then find out for yourself about the Mormon conquest and opening up Utah and get out to a very different part of the Oo Es of Eh.

And whether you’re keeping the red flag flying here, celebrating the Internationale or just twirling around a maypole it’s Mayday Bravo today.

It was, of course, an Irishman, Jim Connell, who came up with the emotive words in 1889 to go with the tune O Tannenbaum.

He had been travelling by train, where you can do a lot of your thinking, in London.

So to mark May Day we’ll revive our Rainy Days and Songdays occasional series with these May Day tunes.

Way to go, Joe

Joe Hill – Joan Baez: And this workers anthem relates to a union leader, framed on a murder charge and executed in Salt Lake City.

But the organiser stands for everyman and of course returns to the narrator in a dream.

And in typical American storytelling style it covers the geography of the whole country… from San Diego up to Maine.

Lennon doctrine

Working Class Hero – John Lennon: They were more Lennon than Lenin in Prague during Soviet rule.

When they would congregate at the Lennon wall to protest.

Lennon, the Working Class Hero from Liverpool, has influenced as many if not more around the world from Hamburg to New York and beyond.

Tennessee tunes

Sixteen Tons – Tennessee Ernie Ford: This ditty of a song with the catchy refrain derives from Kentucky’s Merle Travis in 1947.

And the line ‘You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt” came from a letter written by Travis’s brother John.

We’ve taken Tennessee Ford’s 1955 version which hit the top of the Billboard charts and was inducted into the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry.

The New Boss

Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who: And the Cockney Four whose shows were as much about menace as music nail it here.

And they captured the working class fascination of the Mods in Quadrophenia in their odyssey to Brighton.

But it’s this anthem against The Man and its clarion call: ‘Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.’

Lady Donna

She Works Hard For The Money – Donna Summer: Now you might not associate the Queen of Disco with a societal message.

But the New Yorker penned this after seeing a toilet attendant asleep on her shift at a post-Grammy event in West Hollywood.

And a reminder too for all that while music is replete with messages of working men, working women have had it just as bad and worse.

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The Mormon conquest and opening up Utah