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Title

Red Wing

Authors

Thurland Chattaway
Kerry Mills

Document Type

Score

Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing_art-wenzel-and-his-ragtime-cowboys_gbia0006506a

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing_art-wenzel-and-his-ragtime-cowboys_gbia0007864a

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing_charles-hart-and-elliot-shaw-mills_gbia0011315a

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing_edgar-stoddard-and-henry-burr-kerry-mills_gbia0012297b

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing_frisco-jazz-band-red-gillham-jack-buck-jack-crook-ray-jahnigen-gordon-edwa_gbia0030840a

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing_harley-luse-and-his-blue-ridge-mountain-boys_gbia0024403a

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing_pinky-tomlin-kerry-mills--thurland-chataway-claude-kennedy-manny-klein-and_gbia0013861b

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing_princes-military-band-kerry-mills_gbia0012280a

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing_shannon-quartet-thurland-chattaway-kerry-mills_gbia0015841b

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing_the-merry-macs-kerry-mills-thurland-chattaway_gbia0012216a

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing_troise--his-banoliers-chattaway-mills_gbia0002033b

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing-hillbilly-dilly_eddie-hawks-and-his-high-flyers-mills-chattaway-hockensmi_gbia0005654b

https://archive.org/details/78_red-wing-my-little-girl-turkey-in-the-straw_jess-jenkins_gbia0009310b

Publication Date

1907

Comments

“Red Wing”

(An Indian Fable.)

Words by Thurland Chattaway.

Music by Kerry Mills.

New York: F. A. Mills (1907)

Some of these resources may contain offensive language or negative stereotypes. Such materials should be seen in the context of the time period and as a reflection of attitudes of the time. The items are part of the historical record, and do not represent the views of the library or the institution.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
There once lived an Indian maid,
A shy little prairie maid,
Who sang a lay, a love song gay,
As on the plain she’d while away the day;
She loved a warrior bold, this shy little maid of old,
But brave and gay, he rode one day to battle far away.

[Chorus]
Now, the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing,
The breeze is sighing, the night bird’s crying,
For afar ‘neath his star her brave is sleeping,
While Red Wing’s weeping her heart away.
Now, the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing,
the breeze is sighing, the night bird’s crying,
For a far ‘neath his star her brave is sleeping,
While red Wing’s weeping her heart away.

[Verse 2]
She watched for him day and night,
She kept all the campfires bright,
And under the sky, each night she would lie,
And dream about his coming by and by;
But when all the braves returned, the heart of Red Wing yearned,
For far, far away, her warrior of gay, fell bravely in the fray.

[Chorus]

Recommended Citation

Chattaway, Thurland and Mills, Kerry, "Red Wing" (1907). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1204.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1204