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

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File Created 3/8/2020
File Edited 11/14/2022
 
Verse 1:

      G
There once lived an Indian maid,
  C                  G
A shy little prairie maid,
    D7             G
Who sang all day a love song gay,
   A7                  D7
As on the plains she'd while away the day.

    G
She loved a warrior bold,
     C                  G
This shy little maid of old,
    D7               G
But brave and gay he rode one day
   A7     D7    G
To battle far a-way.

Chorus:

    G#m7C                             G
Now the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing,
              D7                        G      G7
The breeze is sighing, the night bird's crying,
    G#m7C                                G
For a-far 'neath his star her brave is sleeping,
                 D7                  G
While Red Wing's weeping her heart a-way.

Verse 2:

    G
She watched for him day and night;
    C                     G
She lit all the campfires bright;
    D7                 G
And under the sky each night, she would lie
    A7              D7
And dream about his coming by and by,

    G
But when all the braves re-turned,
    C                 G
The heart of Red Wing yearned,
    D7                 G
For far, far away, her warrior gay
     A7      D7     G
Fell bravely in the fray.

Chorus Repeat:

    G#m7C                             G
Now the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing,
              D7                        G      G7
The breeze is sighing, the night bird's crying,
    G#m7C                                G
For a-far 'neath his star her brave is sleeping,
                 D7                  G   CG6G
While Red Wing's weeping her heart a-way.


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