"Happy Land" appears in both The Sacred Harp (page 354) and The Southern Harmony (page 89). It is a hymn by Andrew Young (1807–1889), a Scottish schoolmaster, and first published in 1838. The melody is a Hindustani air, arranged by Leonard P. Breedlove in 1850. In the book Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ma sings "Happy Land". There is a parody "There Is a Boarding-House" by Mark Twain which appears in his novel The American Claimant (1892). In Wilder's later book By the Shores of Silver Lake Laura recounts railroad men singing the "shocking" lyrics of what is evidently Mark Twain's parody and notes that they stopped when they saw Ma. It was sung in the film The King and I (1956).