"Red Wing" was a popular song written in 1907 with music by Kerry 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.
Kerry Mills) who also composed "Georgia Camp Meeting", "Whistling Rufus" and his tribute to the 1904 World’s Fair, “Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis”. A bawdy parody of "Red Wing" (also titled "Red Wing") is in the Bawdy Songs section. Woody Guthrie used this tune for his song "Union Maid" in the Legacies section. |
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