RED WING
(Thurland Chattaway / Irving Mills)

Recorded by: 

Elton Britt; Little Jimmy Dickens; Sam Donahue & His Orch.; 
Lester Flatt; Cal Hand; Paul Hopkins; Shot Jackson; Spike Jones; 
George Lewis; The Lost & Found; Johnny Maddox; Les Paul; 
Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Riley Puckett; Jack Teagarden; 
Bob Wallis & His Storeyville Jazzmen; Dr. Michael White; 
Tex Williams; Foy Willing & the Riders of the Purple Sage.



There once was an Indian maid a shy little prairie maid 
who sang all day a love song gay as through the fields she'd while the hours away. 
She loved an Indian brave this shy little prairie maid 
and then one day he rode away to battle far away..

{Chorus} 
Oh the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing, 
the breeze is sighing, the night birds crying,
For a far far away her brave is dying 
and Red Wings's crying her heart away.

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 brave fell bravely in the fray.

{chorus}
Now the Moon shines tonight on pretty Redwing,
the breeze is sighing, the night birds crying,
for a far'neath his star her brave is sleeping,
while Redwing's weeping her heart away.