Red Wing - as performed by Jack Marti

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Recently a man called me and asked if I could record this song for him, so he could give it to his wife for her birthday. Apparently they had been searching for a recording of the song for years, but couldn't find one anywhere. This intrigued me, as I was very familiar with the tune, but had never heard the words sung before. So I looked it up on You Tube to see if anyone had done a vocal arrangement of it. I could not find one. So I told him I would do it. And here it is!
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Intro G C G C G Em A7 D7 G
There (G)once was an Indian maid,
A (C)shy little prairie (G)maid,
Who (C)sang a lay, a (G)love song (Em)gay,
As (A7)on the plain she'd (D7)while away the day;
She (G)loved a warrior bold,
This (C)shy little maid of (G)old,
But (C)brave and gay, he (G)rode one (Em)day
To (A7)battle (D7)far a(G)way.
Now, the (C)moon shines tonight on pretty (G)Red Wing
The breeze is (D7)sighing, the night bird's (G)crying,
For a(C)far 'neath his star her brave is (G)sleeping,
While Red Wing's (D7)weeping her heart a(G)way.
She (G)watched for him day and night,
She (C)kept all the campfires (G)bright,
And (C)under the sky, each (G)night she would (Em)lie,
And (A7)dream about his (D7)coming by and by;
But (G)when all the braves returned,
The (C)heart of Red Wing (G)yearned,
For (C)far, far away, her (G)warrior (Em)gay,
Fell (A7)bravely (D7)in the (G)fray.
Now, the (C)moon shines tonight on pretty (G)Red Wing
The breeze is (D7)sighing, the night bird's (G)crying,
For a(C)far 'neath his star her brave is (G)sleeping,
While Red Wing's (D7)weeping her heart a(G)way.

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@carolgwilt1885 Год назад

My grandpa sang this song to me when I was very young. I am now 65 and still remember this song. I love you grandpa. Thank you for all your love and for sharing this song with me.

@christophermcconnell3867 4 года назад

My Grandparents helped raise me as a child, and were elderly by the time I came along. My Grandpa was born in 1896, Grandma in 1905. The first songs I remember being sang to me are Red Wing and Danny Boy. Good memories

@geneneill530 10 лет назад

My hair is streaked with gray now ... but I can still remember my grandmother singing this song to me as a lullaby when I was a tiny tot. I could not have been older than three or four, so the year would have been about 1970. One of my very earliest and fondest memories. Thanks for posting the video, Jack.

@JackMarti1956 10 лет назад

You're entirely welcome!

@rogerpropes7129 3 года назад

My mother was born in 1911 and her earliest memory was her older sister singing it to her. The song had been a hit about 1905.

@stephenjohnson8935 3 года назад

Well done, Jack!

@patriciaherman9634 3 года назад

When my grandma stayed over at our house she slept in my bed. In the morning she would sing this song to me. 1965 ish. Also Twenty Froggie went to school. She was taught those songs in a one room school where she attended. 1910 ish. Listening to this has brought joy!

@mbellamy82 2 года назад

I found this video because I wanted my wife and daughter to hear the lullaby MY grandmother always sang to me as a boy. Now if you will excuse me I have some dust in my eyes.

@teresasolis1179 5 месяцев назад

My Granny would sing me this song when I was little. Last night I dreamed of her and looked it up on RU-vid. Thank you for the memories.

@annehughes3997 4 года назад

I’m 82 now and loved my dad singing this

@sophiaterranova3540 4 года назад

My granny sang this to me and I’m so happy it has connect so many people :)

@angelakeenan2858 3 года назад

I LOVE THIS SONG TO BECAUSE MY DAD ALSO SINGS THIS SONG. MY DAD IS 85 YEARS OLD.

@leslijones4443 3 года назад

One of my best childhood summers, we were headed out to Ruidoso, NM, with our horses. My grandparents were along, and Granddaddy brought his “French harp”..he played “You are My Sunshine”, “Turkey in the Straw”, “No Place like Home”, and others, but “Redwing” was my favorite..the year was 1967; I was seven, too. No one left now but my brother and me, but I request this song whenever a string, accordion, or harmonica player is near, and they all usually know it. ❤️ Thanks, Jack, for the memories.

@kat-den 3 года назад

Yes, I'll be 73 this year. I purposely looked for this song. I believe Elton Brett even sang it, or maybe Eddy Arnold. My Mama and Daddy sang this then my big brother sang it alot too. He loved this song. They are all together now in Heaven and I'm sure they sing there too! Thank You so much for singing it for all of us that has memories of this Song. God Bless!

@robertpryor7129 Год назад

Thank you for this blast from the past. My dad used to sing this song to me, along wit 'Big Rock Candy Mountains' in 1950 or so. He was in his fifties at the time.

@lawrencesmith253 Год назад

As a young boy I’d go to my dad’s print shop and clean the press, he would sing my darling red wing. Listening to it brings back many memories.

@SaunieHolloway 8 лет назад

I came here because the ice cream man was playing it. Then my 95 year old Grand-mama told me the name, and said she remembers her mother playing it on the piano. Thanks for posting it!

@JackMarti1956 7 лет назад

You're welcome!

@SweatShirtSkull Год назад

A Colorado exclusive ice cream truck song!

@SaunieHolloway Год назад

@@SweatShirtSkull We live in Southern California. Well, I do. Grand-mama has since passed away, but I come here to play it when I'm missing her❤️

@phyllisalippert-kelly524 4 года назад

My grandfather sang this to us as children & it has a special place in my heart. 💞

@margaretmiller8672 4 года назад

My grandmother taught this to me when I was a toddler! I used to sing it with her all the time. She passed away seven years ago nThank you for bringing it to life for me again ❤️.

@karenmorrison437 9 месяцев назад

My grandfather sang this to us. He’s been dead for 60 years. I have a lump in my throat hearing this.

@mirosusic-gx8uv 9 месяцев назад

@@karenmorrison437God bless your grandfather!!!❤⚘️⚘️⚘️👋😇

@babyprincessparis 15 лет назад

I have heard this song all my life, i actually live in Red Wing, MN, a city named after Chief Red Wing.

@brendaleake 10 месяцев назад

My aunt had a player piano and this song was on one of the scrolls. My cousins and I would take turns pumping the pedals and singing along!

@normaadams4153 3 месяца назад

My mother was born in a coal mining town on Dunn Glen Mountain in 1912. She sang this song to my sister and I and would dance a jig. We loved it!

@paulroyer02 Год назад

Oh, man, I'm 52 years old now. I remember my dad who is long gone singing this song to me when I was 5-6 maybe. Now I get to sing it to my new born son, thank you.

@pippisippi Год назад

My mother’s favorite song💙 this was our lullaby

@1sinequanon 3 года назад

This was one of my grandfather's (born 1887) favorite songs. I didn't know it until one day when I was talking with my mother. I told her about how much I love this song and that it always makes me cry. That's when she told me. I had always heard it as a fiddle solo. This is the first time I have heard the words. Thank you for sharing this.

@rjwalker6677 9 лет назад

This was my dad's favorite tune. He played it on his harmonica for many years, from when I was a kid , until I was in my 50's and he was an old man. But I never heard the words before. Thanks for putting on You Tube.

@JackMarti1956 7 лет назад

You're welcome!

@alicefreesia8112 6 лет назад

My Dad always sang this one too!

@eddie123e 14 лет назад

@bandurasbox I am Scottish and was serving in the British Army. The fighting with the Chinese and North Koreans had become static along the 38th Parallel and we began to receive some home comforts such as a temporary canteen. One of our group was a young Welsh cook who had a wonderful voice and sometimes he would spontaneously start singing Red Wing. It is such a wonderful song AND we picked up the lyrics fairly readily and it became our standard chorus. Thanks for posting.

@yesthatsagrubworm.7732 2 года назад

Wow! Incredible just incredible to see how this song has traveled through history and...across the pond and helped morale during epic hard times! 💜

@JesusFreak288 14 лет назад

Hearing this song has brought tears to my eyes. My dad sang this song to us as he played his guitar many moons ago when we were kids. Thanks for recording it.

@orientbeachbum8346 3 года назад

This was one of my mother's favorite songs. She was born in 1919.

@anitaarnold8670 2 года назад

My mother loved it also

@JackMarti1956 2 года назад

@@anitaarnold8670 This realy does seem to be a special song to a lot of people! Little did I know when I posted this the response it would get!

@mibren2 11 лет назад

When I was a little girl my father use to sing this song to me, while strumming his guitar. Thank you for a walk down memory lane. RIP Daddy.

@fraydazelman5265 2 года назад

My mother was from Canada and it was one of the first songs she sang to me as a small child. I’m now 71 years old and still love it, as do my siblings.

@StevenPettijohn 10 лет назад

I have always cherished this song, and this is a wonderful rendition. Thank you!

@JackMarti1956 10 лет назад

Glad you enjoyed it! :-)

@robertbreitweiser9139 Год назад

Mother used to play the piano and sing this to me ,I believe it was her favorite song,she was a one room school teacher at Janzen, Nebraska

@kennethhaas3807 3 года назад

My God! A man who gave me my first real job used to hum this, and occasionally sing some of the lyrics. For years, I despaired ever finding out what the name of the song was. But, as I have many times, I tried googling what lyrics I could remember, and lo! Here it is! Thanks so much for this! There was only one minor change in the lyrics. The way he sung it was; "and far away, her warrior gay had fallen bravely, fighting in the fray." It kind of flows more mellifluously that way, but might just be his quirky version. His name was Glen Morine from Marengo, Il, dead these many years, but I can still hear his voice singing this song! Rest in peace, Glen, Leda, and Jimmy.

@JackMarti1956 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing that! I actually learned it from sheet music, including lyrics, which was given to me by the person who requested that I record it. I never knew it had lyrics for years until he gave me that sheet music!

@TTexas2 14 лет назад

It was the last time I ever got to do something for/with her. I am so glad I sang it to her even though I can't "carry a tune in a bucket" & I was only half awake. Later I learned from my sister, that for the first time since she had became ill, she was able to sleep well that night & her spirit was uplifted. Thanks again for a song well done. PS It is a true story about a real Indian maid. I wear "Red Wing" brand work boots made in Red Wing, WI, USA

@ferokitten7175 9 месяцев назад

My great Aunt had this piano roll for her player piano. I grew up singing this with her. Treasured memories, Thank You!!!!

@patricialane141 Год назад

My dad used to sing this song to me as he rocked me to sleep that was back in the fall of 1969 lost dad in Feb of 1980 but if I close my eyes really tight I can hear and see him singing this to me thank u for posting

@samuelventola3627 9 лет назад

The chorus is played by the ice cream trucks here in Denver, Colorado. Most people have no idea what the heck is song here, so I post the link back here for them.

@lahlibra 6 лет назад

Samuel Ventola sOmeoNE whO uNdErStANds!

@williamcaine4946 14 дней назад

My Mom used to sing this to me as a lullaby before bed. I'm so glad I found it. thank you mom!!

@johnm9588 10 лет назад

I have never heard Red Wing sung before. You did a wonderful job of it. I have only listened to it on my 1907 recording of it by Prince's Military band. Columbia Record #A19.

@judykratovil74 2 года назад

I love this song and the memories of my grandmother singing it to me in the 1950s. She had a print of a painting hanging on her bedroom wall that depicted a very sad looking Indian maid sitting beside a river in the moonlight. She told me it was the artwork of a calendar that hung in their general store in the 1920s. Wish I knew the story of that painting! Has anyone else seen it?

@excellinkus 2 года назад

I remember hearing this song from when I was about 4 years old, back in the early 1950s. Even then it made me sad.

@bluecatbabe Год назад

I know this tune from the 1915 WWI parody, using the tune of the refrain “Oh the moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin, his boots are cracking, for the want of blacking. His little baggy trousers they want mending, before they send him, to the Dardanelles. Today we were singing it & my husband remembered the name of the tune. Thank you so much for sharing.

@HankD13 5 лет назад

My grandad sang this song all the time - slower, more a lullaby. My mother loved it, and my father would sing it for her, once her dad had passed away. Nice to find a rendition of it for her, even if a little fast and jaunty.

@kat-den 3 года назад

Yes, I remember hearing this song and my Daddy would play his Martin guitar and sing it. My brother sany it and also had a wonderful voice. Sometimes we sang it in the car on a drive somewhere. Thank you!!

@zippcity 15 лет назад

Great Randition, Love this old song was not pleased when the City of Dallas Tx banned it from the ice cream trucks in the city some years back

@aliciaabrams2047 10 лет назад

My dad used to sing this song to me all the time when I was little. He only sang the chorus though, so I never knew just how sad this was until I was much older.I love this song.

@JackMarti1956 10 лет назад

I never knew this song had words until I was asked to make this recording! :-)

@mikesnowden1 2 месяца назад

My Grandpa Eugene Lyle wanted me to play this for him in the 70's. unfortunately he didn't have a recording for me to copy & RU-vid didn't exist. Here's to you Grandpa Snowden. One of the best men I ever knew. RIP.

@WordsofChangeTube Год назад

I always like "union maid" and played it on the guitar, strumming with my thumb. I knew little of my grandfather, but recently found out one of his favorite songs was "Red Wing" (same tune as Union maid) which he played on the guitar (strumming with his thumb) and friends and family would sit on his porch and play it. What a great connection!

@hennihabeck8502 3 года назад

Lovely old Song beaütifully sung and played

@1deseret Год назад

Ah, brings back so many memories! My dad used to whistle this tune and sometimes sing it or play it on his harmonica all my growing up years.

@karensveiven8489 2 года назад

I am nearly 80 and recall the many times my Daddy played his guitar and sang this to me.

@chandlerpatterson698 5 лет назад

My grandfather used to sing this to me and my cousins. He passed away this last October. Rip Papa

@Wintersmith12 15 лет назад

A piece of American history, and sung and played beautifully. Thank you :)

@JackMarti1956 3 года назад

Thank you!

@mgo1990 15 лет назад

A beautifull song. Regards from Norway.

@bobbaker4027 4 года назад

A cherished memory of my beloved 2nd grade teacher Miss. Orlean Wilburn....Thanks for the great rendition Jack!

@heidigildersleeve9343 9 лет назад

My grandmother used to sing this song to us at bedtime or out camping. I am going to sing it at her memorial service coming up soon and I wanted to share the tune with my uncle. This is very helpful, and reminiscent of how she would play it on her guitar.

@barrymore 14 лет назад

Brought a tear to my eye. My grandfather's fav song which he used to sing to me when I was child. Lovely.

@jacksonmarsh2033 6 лет назад

Brings back good memories of my mom who used to sing this to me many years ago

@starfish50 13 лет назад

I can remember my Daddy playing this on the guitar and singing it to us, such a sad beautiful song.

@froggiechar 11 лет назад

Jack, this is so great! I keep playing it over and over, again! Thanks for putting it on RU-vid. God bless, Charlie.....I just subscribed!

@bugman1984 11 лет назад

this song was the tune played on the Dairy Queen ice cream truck when I was a kid. now on endless loop in my brain.

@darkallegiance666 13 лет назад

Thoroughly enjoyable. I haven't heard this song for over 40 years & didn't remember the last verse. I love the way you sang it.

@TTexas2 14 лет назад

Thanks for posting. My Dad born 1911, his mother sang it to him as a lullaby since the day he was born. Dad sang it to us while playing his guitar & harmonica. My Mom born 1914 said she learned it from her dad. Red Wing was Mom's favorite. Three months before she passed away, she called me at 2:00 AM one morning & requested I sing & play Red Wing on my guitar. So my wife & I sang it to her over the phone & Mom joined in singing the whole song.

@JackMarti1956 3 года назад

That's beautiful! Thanks for sharing! This isn't my main channel, so I don't always catch the comments. I just now discovered this one!

@TTexas2 Год назад

@@JackMarti1956 2nd post -for some reason my response did NOT get posted, so try again It was the last time I ever got to do something for/with MOM. I am so glad I sang it to her even though I can't "carry a tune in a bucket" & I was only half awake. Later I learned from my sister, that for the first time since MOM had became ill, she was able to sleep well that night & her spirit was uplifted. Thanks again for a song well done. PS It is a true story about a real Indian maid. [When working around the Ranch,] I wear "Red Wing" brand work boots made in Red Wing, WI, USA

@JackMarti1956 Год назад

That's awesome about your mom!

@ravenadams4683 9 лет назад

My PawPaw used to play this song for on the harmonica..........TY so much for bringing me back this childhood memory

@ChctSflwr 9 лет назад

My dad (born in 1926) played this on the harmonica all the time too, quite a coincidence..or maybe everyone who learned to play harp of that generation learned this tune. I've known this song all my life, now learning it on mandolin myself!

@LuannonVlogs 8 лет назад

came here from shaytards, you go emmi

@emmamarks5598 8 лет назад

Ya Emmi sang it better than this 😂🎤🎼

@JJ-tn9do 8 лет назад

+Emma Marks i agree emmi sings it way better

@patlala6591 3 года назад

I too am 82, and the version I knew of this was the drinking song. I never knew the clean version until now. Very good.

@savannahdennis9351 3 года назад

Me and my grandfather used to play this song together in his pawn shop with the guitars that he had hanging on the walls we sang it a lil different but it still takes me back

@christierobnett7235 2 года назад

My mother who was born in 1922 remembered her mother singing this song.

@marlynkauk9469 6 лет назад

Heard this many times, husband on the harmonica and his brother on the guitar. Never knew the story, thanks.

@melanieleonard4728 8 лет назад

Thank you so much for uploading this. My grandmother used to sing this to us. It is so nice to have the words and music to it at long last. Bless you.

@abcd0123504 11 лет назад

I grew up hearing this song. Loved it. thanks so much for posting it here!

@alliecat1941 3 года назад

My dad use to play this on his harmonica when i was a child in the 40s..Back then we called it the mouth organ hahahaha!!

@sis2fngpkr 16 лет назад

I've looked a lifetime for this song. My grandfather used to whistle it. Thank you so much for sharing.

@MrEmmaMcD 7 лет назад

Thank you. My mother (who was born in 1921) sang this as a lullaby to my brother and I, as did I to my children and I now sing it to my great niece. I hope to sing it to grandchildren one day soon. How lovely to find someone else across the planet who still sings my lullaby. Kindest regards

@Astyanaz Год назад

Strange how things like this move through all time. We remember those who sang it. Somewhere there was a young and beautiful girl like Red Wing, mourning for her lost love. Remembered for awhile, yet now even their bones are have turned to dust and been forgotten, the same as the graves of those left buried on the paths of the wagon trains. It's sad how our past slips sadly away.

@garfieldrupe630 5 месяцев назад

I learned to play this song on an Autoharp many decades ago. Probably around 1970

@Chrojd 10 лет назад

This must have been a song daddy's sang to their little girls because my dad sang this to me too. I miss him so much but this song brings back vivid memories. Thanks for posting this. I love you Daddy, RIP

@bookworm1962 12 лет назад

This is the first song I ever learned all the words to - I remember driving with my grandparents and singing it over and over again till I could sing it by myself. I've always loved it, it is so sad but beautiful in it's own way. Thank you for a wonderful rendition :)

@JackMarti1956 3 года назад

Thank you! I never knew there were words till I recorded it!

@yesthatsagrubworm.7732 3 года назад

@@JackMarti1956 my great grandpa wrote the lyrics to this song and many more! I never had the honor to know him, but he was my dad's grandpa and passed when my dad was 10 years old...1947 ish. Thank u for sharing this! ♥️♥️

@JackMarti1956 3 года назад

@@yesthatsagrubworm.7732 My pleasure!

@yesthatsagrubworm.7732 2 года назад

These comments are priceless to read! I have an old instrument of his, idk but it looks like a mini banjo, or a banjo of that era maybe...? But it has the names of cities I assume he played at in handwritten on the 'leathery' part. The musical gene left the building apparently with him...but one gene has stayed all these generations later...we talk talk talk...away! Thx again for sharing!

@babytreese 16 лет назад

I loved the pics!! Love this tune...good job!

@SparklingSherry 12 лет назад

My grandmother used to sing this to me. Thank you!

@joelrobertsonmusic 2 года назад

My grandpa used to sing this all the time. I forgot about it till I randomly started humming it. Beautiful memories!

@octobersonya 12 лет назад

Thank you. My mom's mother used to sing her this. She and I are here listening to it now. She can not believe this exists for us to both hear. 3

@JackMarti1956 7 лет назад

You're welcome!

@mikeyjl54 7 лет назад

John Wayne and Lee Marvin sang this is in the movie "Comancheros"

@michellehallowell7949 3 года назад

I’m 66 and my Dad played this song on his banjo and his mandolin. The little grandkids would skip and dance all over the house

@thatusernamehasnotbe 15 лет назад

wonderful! thank you, i've been looking for this, my mother told me it was her mother's favorite song as a child, and her being born in 1908 she grew up with it. thank you so much!

@rbheiss 13 лет назад

Fantastic recording! When I was a little kid back in the garden of Eden or something my mom used to sing me to sleep to this song. For some reason I did a search this evening and here I am. Memories man... thanks for the memories. Some of those memories come from the head but despite scientific arguments to the contrary memories also come from the heart. You sparked both kinds of memories here for me. Thumbs up and added to my favorites, Rolland B. Heiss

@menjivar2537 4 месяца назад

I was reading Johnny Got His Gun, and this quote called my attention, Now the moon shines tonight on pretty Red Wing The birds are sighing, the night wind crying . . . I searched on Google about it and i found this song, is really amazing how a book can make you travel into music and feelings, and the most sad is knowing that Joe althought he was deaf this song was playing in his mind.

@chloeallen306 8 лет назад

Came from the shaytards!! Emmi is amazing!!

@tiffantegan 8 лет назад

came here from shaytards

@heatherchristie1045 8 лет назад

me too

@ttulaa 8 лет назад

+tiffany bailey Same Emmi has such a beautiful voice it's unbelievably amazing

@phillipcurran8365 8 лет назад

+tiffany bailey same here

@zeinazebra123 8 лет назад

+tiffany bailey same

@annisajannah2267 8 лет назад

same lollolloll

@Peggysmusic 12 лет назад

Love this song! Thanks for sharing!

@kikipaterson9020 8 лет назад

+shaytards I came from emmi's amazing singing

@ptgolfer4 7 лет назад

Excellent ! Good vocal and guitar back up. Have a Happy New Year

@pinknblues1 16 лет назад

absolutely ace song and so well played and sung!

@danzigvi 11 лет назад

Always a good song..a real classic. A job well done singing it on this video, too.

@Erwin0929 9 лет назад

BRAVO... MAGNIFICENT SONG...! EVER...

@eightbaII1955 11 лет назад

lovely rendition! great playing...

@origamigirl95 Год назад

I'm in my 20s, but I remember my grandma singing this to me as a kid. The words were slightly different in her version, but I'm so happy to have found it here, thank you! :)

@rastagirl007 16 лет назад

The photos appear to be authentic, and if they are, they are beautifully haunting!Love the instruments. Great job, Jack. This must have been a delight for you to produce!

@ruotze 16 лет назад

This may become a classic!

@boxercats 10 лет назад

When we were little (way back in the very early 1960's) my mother would play this on her piano and sing while we danced our version of Indians around the campfire. Thanks for sharing this. Brought back such good memories.