[Joseph Smith Diary] January 7th, Saturday 8 1/2 [A.M.] Left Judge Adams on our way to Nauvoo .... While riding Gen[eral] Law sang the following hymn [written by William Clayton]:
And are you sure the news is true?
And are you sure he's free?
Then let us join with one accord,
And have a Jubilee
Chorus
We'll have a Jubilee, My Friend
We'll have a Jubilee
With heart and voice we'll all rejoice
Because /In that/ our Prophet's free
2d
Success unto the Federal Court.
Judge Pope presiding there;
And also his associates too,
So lovely and so fair
3 Chorus
Also to our learned Councillors
We owe our gratitude
Because that they in freedom's cause
Like valiant men have stood
4 Chorus
In the defence of Innocence,
They made the truth to bear;
Reynolds and Carlin's baseness both
Did fearlessly declare
5 Chorus see [1]13, 114 page[s]
/Edwards and Butterfield and Pope
/The names of Pope and Butterfield
We'll mention with applause
Because that they like champions bold
Support the Federal Law
7 chorus
One word in praise of Thomas Ford
That Democrat so true;
He understands the people's rights
And will protect them too.
8 chorus
There is one more we wish enrol'd
Upon the Book of fame
That master spirit in all jokes
And Prentice but in name
8 chorus see P[age] 114
/12/ With warmest heart we bid good bye
to those we leave behind
The citizens of Springfield all
So courteous and so kind.
15 chorus
And now we're bound for home my friend
A bond of brothers true
To cheer the heart of those we love
In beautiful Nauvoo.
We'll have a Jubilee My friends
We'll have a Jubilee
With heart and voice we'll all rejoice
In that our Prophet's free
[Source: Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1842-43, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries]
[Faulring, pp.287-88]
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