c.1919 CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN 4 BARS 'FRM LAND OF SKY BLUE WATER' INDIAN SONG for Sale

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c.1919 CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN 4 BARS 'FRM LAND OF SKY BLUE WATER' INDIAN SONG For Sale

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c.1919 CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN 4 BARS 'FRM LAND OF SKY BLUE WATER' INDIAN SONG:
$199.99

[HISTORIC MUSIC, PATRIOTIC SONGS]

On offer here is an ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH WITH HANDWRITTEN SCALE BY AMERICAN COMPOSER CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN OF HIS MOST WELL KNOWN SONG, 'FROM THE LAND OF SKY BLUE WATER'.

The autograph is in black fountain pen on a sheet of an autograph book which has been signed on both sides. The sheet measures 6.25 x 8 in and is in excellent condition. Cadman has written out 4 bars of the song and signed beneath.

The verso of the sheet ALSO HAS THE AUTOGRAPHS OF VOCALIST FREDERICK GUNSTER, SINGER CARRIE JACOBS-BOND AND MOST NOTABLY THE AUTOGRAPH OF SWEDISH AMERICAN PAINTER CARL OSCAR BORG.

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"From the Land of the Sky-BlueWater" (1909) is a popular song composed byCharles Wakefield Cadman. He based it on an Omaha love song collected by AliceC. Fletcher. "Sky-blue water" or "clear blue water" is onepossible translation of "Mnisota," the name for the Minnesota Riverin the Dakota language.

Cadman's collaborator, Nelle Richmond Eberhart, wrotea poem as the lyrics:

From the Land of Sky-blue Water,

They brought a captive maid,

And her eyes they are lit with lightnings,

Her heart is not afraid!

But I steal to her lodge at dawning,

I woo her with my flute;

She is sick for the Sky-blue Water,

The captive maid is mute.

The song became widely popular after noted Americansoprano Lillian Nordica performed it in concert in 1909.

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