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AKA<\/strong><\/td>Little Red Wing<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1905<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Thurland Chattaway \/ Kerry Mills<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN27849<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Alexandra Dagmar, Ouida MacDermott<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Neal, Riley; USA : Arizona; no date
Kaplan, Norman; USA : New York; no date
Modern performances<\/strong>
Oscar Brand (1950 parody), Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, George Lewis (jazz version 1950s), Slim Whitman<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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There once lived an Indian maid,\nA shy little prairie maid,\nWho sang all day a love song gay,\nAs on the plains she'd while away the day.\nShe loved a warrior bold,\nThis shy little maid of old,\nBut brave and gay he rode one day\nTo battle far away.\n\nNow the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing,\nThe breeze is sighing, the night bird's crying,\nFor afar 'neath his star her brave is sleeping, \nWhile Red Wing's weeping her heart away<\/em>.\n\nShe watched for him day and night;\nShe lit all the campfires bright;\nAnd under the sky each night, she would lie\nAnd dream about his coming by and by,\nBut when all the braves returned,\nThe heart of Red Wing yearned,\nFor far, far away, her warrior gay\nFell bravely in the fray.\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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An American Tin Pan Alley song whose melody turns up in all sorts of interesting places. The melody was written by music publishing executive Kerry Mills, based on an earlier piano piece written by German composer Robert Schumann. It comes from a period when romanticised portraits of Native Americans were particularly common, another example is Hiawatha: His song to Minnehaha<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As is the case with other hits imported from America and sung on the British Music Hall stage, this song was not particularly associated with any one performer though Alexandra Dagmar and Ouida MacDermott both sang it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The tune of this song seems to be particularly useful for parodies – it was famously used both for the wartime Music Hall hit The Moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin<\/em><\/a> and for the Woody Guthrie song Union Maid<\/em> (1940). A number of bawdy parodies are in circulation  – one of the milder ones (from Oscar Brand) is given below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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