Red Wing
Music by Kerry Mills
Key: Bb
Lyrics by Thurland Chattaway
Copyright 1907

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File Created 3/8/2020
 
Verse 1:

      Bb
There once lived an Indian maid,
  Eb                 Bb
A shy little prairie maid,
    F7             Bb
Who sang all day a love song gay,
   C7                  F7
As on the plains she'd while away the day.

    Bb
She loved a warrior bold,
     Eb                 Bb
This shy little maid of old,
    F7               Bb
But brave and gay he rode one day
   C7     F7    Bb
To battle far a-way.

Chorus:

    Bm7 Eb                            Bb
Now the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing,
              F7                        Bb     Bb7
The breeze is sighing, the night bird's crying,
    Bm7Eb                               Bb
For a-far 'neath his star her brave is sleeping,
                 F7                  Bb
While Red Wing's weeping her heart a-way.

Verse 2:

    Bb
She watched for him day and night;
    Eb                    Bb
She lit all the campfires bright;
    F7                 Bb
And under the sky each night, she would lie
    C7              F7
And dream about his coming by and by,

    Bb
But when all the braves re-turned,
    Eb                Bb
The heart of Red Wing yearned,
    F7                 Bb
For far, far away, her warrior gay
     C7      F7     Bb
Fell bravely in the fray.

Chorus Repeat:

    Bm7 Eb                            Bb
Now the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing,
              F7                        Bb     Bb7
The breeze is sighing, the night bird's crying,
    Bm7Eb                               Bb
For a-far 'neath his star her brave is sleeping,
                 F7                  Bb  EbBb6Bb
While Red Wing's weeping her heart a-way.


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