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Vocal

"Red Wing"
Sheet music cover (1907)
Vocal
Published	1907
Genre	Western swing, bluish grass
Composer(s)	F.A Mills
Lyricist(s)	Thurland Chattaway

"Red Wing" is a popular vocal written in 1907 with music by F.A Mills and lyrics past Thurland Chattaway. Mills adjusted the music of the poetry from Robert Schumann'southward piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" from his 1848 Album for the Immature, Opus 68. The song tells of a young Indian girl'southward loss of her sweetheart who has died in boxing.

Lyrics [edit]

There once lived an Indian maid,

A shy piffling prairie maid,

Who sang all mean solar day a love vocal gay,

As on the plains she'd while away the day.

She loved a warrior bold,

This shy little maid of erstwhile,

Only brave and gay he rode one day

To battle far abroad.

Now the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing,

The breeze is sighing, the nighttime bird's crying,

For afar 'neath his star her brave is sleeping,^{[Northward ane]}

While Red Wing's weeping her center away.

She watched for him day and dark;

She lit all the campfires bright;

And under the heaven each night, she would lie

And dream nigh his coming by and by,

But when all the braves returned,

The heart of Scarlet Wing yearned,

For far, far away, her warrior gay

Fell bravely in the fray.

Now the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing,

The breeze is sighing, the night bird's crying,

For distant 'neath his star her dauntless is sleeping,

While Red Wing's weeping her heart away.^[ane]

1. ^ in later versions unremarkably: "For a far far away her brave is dying"

Covers [edit]

The song has been recorded numerous times in many different styles. It was sung past John Wayne in the 1943 film In One-time Oklahoma and again by John Wayne and Lee Marvin in the 1961 picture The Comancheros and finally by John Wayne and Lauren Bacall in the 1976 film The Shootist. In 1950 Oscar Make recorded a bawdy version in his Bawdy Songs & Backroom Ballads, Book three.

• The song was connected with and often performed by actress Princess Red Wing.^[2] It "accomplished a folk song-like popularity" and became a standard for"Native American fiddlers".^[2] Its name refers to Blood-red Fly, Minnesota, which is named for Mdewakanton Dakota Principal Red Fly.^[2]
• Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys recorded a Western swing cover of Ruby Wing in the 1940s.
• George Lewis helped make information technology a standard of the traditional jazz revival era.
• An instrumental version, with Chet Atkins on guitar, was released past Asleep at the Wheel in 1993.
• American roots music grouping The Steel Wheels recorded a version with new lyrics in 2011.
• Slim Whitman, country music singer

In pop civilisation [edit]

The chorus of Red Wing is the jingle for the Water ice Cream Railroad vehicle ice cream truck visitor of Denver, Colorado.^[3]

"Union Maid" by Woody Guthrie [edit]

In 1940 Woody Guthrie wrote new lyrics to the tune, retitled "Spousal relationship Maid". Guthrie's are possibly the most famous of culling words for the song; his song begins:

There once was a union maid, she never was afraid

Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid.

She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called,

And when the Legion boys come 'round

She always stood her ground.

Oh, you can't scare me, I'grand sticking to the union,

I'm sticking to the union, I'm sticking to the union.

Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,

I'thou sticking to the marriage 'til the day I die.

The Moon Shines Bright on Charlie Chaplin [edit]

Red Wing was parodied in a version popular amid British troops during the Kickoff World War, which begins with the line, "Now the moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin." This variant originated in response to the comedian'southward refusal to enlist, and was featured in the movie Oh! What A Lovely War.^[4] It was subsequently perpetuated amongst British schoolchildren. During the 1970s, Harry Boardman and the Oldham Tinkers folk grouping recorded a version incorporating all of the verses that they remembered from their childhood.^[five]

Starting time Earth War [edit]

The following version was published in 1916 by B. Feldman.^[6]

Y'all've sung of the boys in blue,

You've sung of their girls and then true,

You've marched to the strain of the well-known refrain

Of "Who's Your Lady Friend?" and "Tipperary" besides,

Our Tommies so brave and stiff

Have sung ev'ry kind of vocal

But what is the lay they're singing today

As they go marching along?

Refrain

When the moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin

His shoes are slap-up, for desire of blacking

And his little baggy trousers they want mending

Before we ship him to the Dardanelles.

Some mean solar day there volition come a time

To "Wind upwards the Picket on the Rhine",

And Tommy and Jack will come marching dorsum

And have a cup for the sake of "Auld Lang Syne".

But ere that happy twenty-four hour period

The Germans have got to pay,

When we march in to capture Berlin

We will sing this little lay.

Refrain

A variant of the refrain goes

When the moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin

His boots are groovy, for want of blacking

And the bottoms of his shoes they won't need mending

Before they ship him to the Dardanelles.

Another variant (some years later, and without the war reference) goes

Oh the moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin

His boots are nifty, they need a blacking

And his quondam gray trousers need a patching

Crusade he's been scratching

Mosquito bites!

Oldham Tinkers [edit]

Refrain

The moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin

His boots are crackin' for want of blackin'

And his owd fusty glaze is wanting mending

Until they send him to the Dardenelles

Charlie Chaplin had no sense

He bought a flute for 18 pence

But the just tune that he could play

Was ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay

Refrain

Charlie Chaplin meek and mild

Stole a sausage from a kid

But when the child began to weep

Charlie socked him in the middle

Refrain

Charlie Chaplin went to French republic

To teach the ladies how to dance

Start you heel, and then you toe

Lift your skirts and upwards you become

Refrain

Charlie Chaplin Chuck-Chuck-Chuck

Went to bed with three white ducks

One died and Charlie cried

Charlie Chaplin Chuck-Chuck-Chuck

Refrain

References [edit]

1. ^ Mills, Kerry. "Red Wing: An Indian Intermezzo" (sheet music). New York: F.A. Mills (1907).
2. ^ ^{a b c} O'Connor, Mark (July fifteen, 2011). "Red Wing". The O'Connor Method - A New American Schoolhouse of String Playing. New American School of String Playing. Ii . Retrieved July 8, 2013.
3. ^ https://icecreamwagon.com/2016/02/19/the-ice-foam-truck-vocal/
4. ^ Oh What a Lovely War
5. ^ Oldham Tinkers
6. ^ The Moon Shines Bright on Charlie Chaplin

External links [edit]

• "Reddish Wing", Frederick H. Potter with the Edison Male Quartette (Edison Gold Moulded 9622, 1907)—Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.
• "Ruddy Wing" (Canvass music)"—The Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Canvas Music Collection ^{[ permanent dead link ]} , Mississippi Land Academy.
• Union Maid
• Union Maid lyrics

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Wing_%28song%29

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