A native art song, 1909.
words by Nelle Richmond Eberhart
music by Charles Wakefield Cadman
Founded on an Omaha tribal melody collected by Alice C. Fletcher.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:
Lyrics
From the land of the sky-blue water
They brought a captive maid
And her eyes they are lit with lightnings
Her heart is not afraid
But I steal to her lodge at dawning
I woo her with my flute
She is sick for the sky-blue water
The captive maid is mute
Sung here by Fred Feild: