"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:
“they burned Joan
and many, and many,
burned at the stake,
peeling their skin off,
boiling their good red blood,
their hearts like eggs....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)