Snow Deer

DESCRIPTION: "Sweet Snow Deer mine, moon's a-shine through the pine, While Mohawks sleep, let us sleep through the vale, Your cowboy lover Your heart will cover." "My pretty Snow Deer, Say you will go, dear." They will escape to the ranch and live happily
AUTHOR: Words: Jack Mahoney / Music: Percy Wenrich (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1913 (sheet music by Wenrich-Howard)
KEYWORDS: love courting Indians(Am.)
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Boette-SingaHipsyDoodle, p. 140, "Snow Deer" (1 text, tune)
Roud #7508
NOTES [65 words]: Despite the fact that the singer loves an Indian girl, the song is overall pretty racist -- and certainly doesn't strike me as good poetry. Percy Wenrich is perhaps slightly better known as the composer of "Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet." Boette-SingaHipsyDoodle suggests that this might have been inspired by the success of "Red Wing," which strikes me as reasonable, but I can't prover it. - RBW
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File: Boet140

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