Red Wing
Jack
Marti
Adaptation
Words: Thurland Chattaway
Music: Kerry Mills (adapted in 1907 from Robert A. Schumann's "The Happy Farmer", Opus 68, No. 10, 1849)There once was an Indian maid,
A shy little prairie maid,
Who sang a lay (all day) a love song gay,
As on the plain she'd while away the day.
(As through the fields she'd while the hours away.)She loved a warrior bold,
This shy little maid of old,
But brave and gay he rode one day
To a battle far away.She loved an Indian brave,
This shy little prairie maid
And then one day he rode away
To battle far away.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.
For a far far away her brave is dying
And Red Wing's crying her heart away.She watched for him day and night,
And 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 gay (brave)
Fell bravely in the fray.Now the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing...