(Indian Love Song)
A popular song from 1909
Words by Vincent Bryan
Music by Ted Snyder
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Many moons ago, down in Mexico
Out upon the Indian reservation
Lived a red-skin queen, she was just eighteen
Sweetest girl in all her dusky nation
Riding from the North a cowboy came
She met him and set his heart aflame
Every night they’d ride o’er the prairie wide
While to explain his love he tried
Chorus:
Ogalalla, Ogalalla
Heap much love, you love me
Soon we ride quick my tepee
Ogalalla, Ogalalla
Big chief get sore, and he make much war
But we go before
If you be my squaw
My Ogalalla, follow me
2. In the starry light, of summer night
From the camp there steals a redskin wary
Finds these lovers two, as they bill and coo
Soon his war-cry echoes from the prairie
Then the cowboy takes her bridle rein
Madly gallops with her o’er the plain
And by break of day, when they’re far away
He takes her in his arm to say