Gonzalez, Andrés C (1996). Placentero nos es trabajar. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. p.88. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) The hymn, immensely popular in the nineteenth century, became a Gospel standard and has appeared in hymnals ever since. A crowd of admirers in New Zealand sang the hymn in 1885 at the railway station to the departing American temperance evangelists Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Blue Ribbon Army representative R.T. Booth. [3]

Sanford Fillmore Bennett was born inNew York, 21 June 1836.In 1864 enrolled in the Wisconsin Volunteers and served as Second Lieutenant. Following the war, he returned to Elkhorn and started a drug store and began the study of medicine. He graduated from Rush Medical College in 1874. Mr. Webster, like many musicians, was of an exceedingly nervous and sensitive nature, and subject to periods of depression, in which he looked upon the dark side of all things in life. I had learned his peculiarities so well that on meeting him I could tell at a glance if he was melancholy, and had found that I could rouse him up by giving him a new song to work on. News of the Day". (Christchurch) Press. No.6148. Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand. 3 June 1885. p.2 . Retrieved 27 December 2020.Mark Twain made fun of the song's ubiquitous popularity, along with the demographic groups in which it became popular. The melody is mentioned in The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton (1878) and The invalid's Story (1882); in both stories the melody is sung out of tune. Also in chapter 17 ("A Banquet") of his 1889 satirical novel A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court. The protagonist, Hank Morgan, a visitor from the future, attends a lavish court dinner given by Morgan Le Fay, King Arthur's sister, during which guests are regaled with music: Sweet By and By was originally written on a little piece of 5 x 7 paper , but it was big enough to sing its way into the hearts of millions of Christian people for over 140 years. The 1907 Spanish-language hymnal of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) contained a similar song, "Hay un Mundo Feliz Más Allá", and set to the same tune modified by adding to all parts the notes of the traditional first response in the call-and-response division of the refrain. This hymn was copied with permission from the American Tract Society's Himnos evangélicos. [4] [5] During the era of the Mexican Revolution, Andrés C. Gonzalez, an early LDS Church missionary in Mexico, sang "Hay un mundo feliz más allá" in public and was arrested for "stealing" the Protestants' song. [6] While incarcerated, he rewrote the lyrics as Despedida, which appeased the police. [6] This revised version appears in place of the original in every iteration of the church's hymnal from 1912 on. [7] [8] It was titled "Despedida" until the 1992 version of the hymnal, when it changed to match the first line: "Placentero nos es trabajar". [7] [9] Parodies and satire [ edit ]

This is the only hymn ever written in a drugstore. For decades millions of Americans have sung the lyrics to his famous hymn; yet, only a handful know the name of the one who co-wrote Sweet By and By. Sanford Fillmore Bennett was born in New York, 21 June 1836. He moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin and in 1864 enrolled in the Wisconsin Volunteers and served as Second Lieutenant in the Civil War. Following the war, he returned to Elkhorn and started a drug store. During this time he began the study of medicine at Rush Medical College in Chicago. He graduated in 1874. Sweet By-and-By' continues to be commonly performed. Memorable recordings over the years have been done byElvis Presley,Louis Armstrong,Johnny Cash,Glen Campbell,Dolly Parton,Willie Nelson,Loretta LynnandKenny Rogers. We are thrilled to share a series of brief accounts of how some of the great hymns of our faith were written. Each synopsis has been compiled through the research of Jerry Vargo and is shared by permission. It is our hope that these stories will be a help and encouragement to your Christian walk. This week we read the unique story behind the stirring hymn, “Sweet By and By.” The hymn is also heard in films, including The 39 Steps (1935), Sergeant York (1941), Benny and Joon, The Outlaw Josey Wales, A Prairie Home Companion, Supervixens, Django Unchained (2012) and Suburbicon (2017).

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The hymn was parodied by Joe Hill in 1911 as The Preacher and the Slave, in which the phrase " pie in the sky" was coined as a satirical comment on the Christian conception of heavenly reward.