An Indian Fable, an intermezzo turned song, 1907.
words by Thurland Chattaway
music by Kerry Mills
The sheet music:
Piano by ‘Perfessor’ Bill Edwards:
Lyrics
- There once lived an Indian maid
A shy little prairie maid
Who sang a lay, a love song gay
As on the plain she’d while away the day
She loved a warrior bold
This shy little maid of old
But brave and gay, he rode one day
To battle far away
Chorus
Now, the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing
The breeze is sighing, the night bird’s crying
For afar ‘neath his star her brave is sleeping
While Red Wing’s weeping, 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 gay
Fell bravely in the fray
Sung here by Fred Feild: