| "Red Wing" | |
|---|---|
 Sheet music cover (1907) | |
| Song | |
| Published | 1907 |
| Genre | Western swing, bluegrass |
| Composer(s) | F.A Mills |
| Lyricist(s) | Thurland Chattaway |
"Red Wing" is a popular song written in 1907 with music by F.A Mills and lyrics by Thurland Chattaway. Mills adapted the music of the verse from Robert Schumann's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" from his 1848 Album for the Young , Opus 68. The song tells of a young Indian girl's loss of her sweetheart who has died in battle.
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The song has been recorded numerous times in many styles. In 1950 Oscar Brand recorded a bawdy version in his Bawdy Songs & Backroom Ballads, Volume 3.
The chorus of Red Wing is the jingle for the Ice Cream Wagon ice cream truck company of Denver, Colorado. [3]
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Red Wing was parodied in a version popular among British troops during the First World War, which begins with the line, "Now the moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin." This variant originated in response to the comedian's refusal to enlist, and was featured in the movie Oh! What A Lovely War . [4] It was subsequently perpetuated among British schoolchildren. During the 1970s, Harry Boardman and the Oldham Tinkers folk group recorded a version incorporating all of the verses that they remembered from their childhood. [5]
The following version was published in 1916 by B. Feldman. [6]
A variant of the refrain goes
Another variant (some years later, and without the war reference) goes
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