MormonTimes.com: Original 'Poor Wayfaring Man' had different tune
The tune had been lost to history. For 140 years, church members have sung the song to a different tune, one commissioned by Taylor himself.
A year before President Taylor died in 1887, he sang the song for composer Ebenezer Beesley the way he sang it at Carthage jail in Illinois before a mob stormed the building and shot and killed Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith and wounded Taylor and Willard Richards.
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