"Red Wing" is a popular song written in 1907 with music by Kerry Mills and lyrics by Thurland Chattaway. Mills adapted the music from Robert Schumann's composition for piano "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" from his 1848 work Album for the Young, Opus 68. The song tells of a young Indian maid's loss of her sweetheart who has died in battle. It is most memorable for its 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.
Famous quotes containing the words red and/or wing:
“And the truth wailing there like a red babe.”
—Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)