FROM THE LAND OF THE SKY-BLUE WATER
(Charles Wakefield Cadman (m) Nelle Richmond Eberhart (l)  1909)

as recorded by Lee Wiley
with orchestra directed by Billy Butterfield
July 1957 New York


>From the land of the sky-blue water
They brought a captive maid,
And her eyes, they were lit with lightning;
Her heart was not afraid!

And he steals to her lodge at dawning
And woos her with his flute.
She is sick for the sky-blue water,
The captive maid is mute.

But he steals to her lodge at dawning
And woos her with his flute.
She is sick for the sky-blue water,
The captive maid is mute.



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - March 2015)