Hiawatha's Wooing

DESCRIPTION: "Then come with me in my little canoe, Where the (sea/river) is calm and the sky is blue." The singer urges against delay lest something go wrong. He promises to hunt what she needs to live a good life
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1851 (Hutchinson Family''s Book of Words, according to Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania)
KEYWORDS: hunting love courting
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 97-101, "Hiawatha's Wooing"; "Paraphrase of Hiawatha's Wooing"; "Come Live With Me In My Little Canoe"; "The Little Canoe' or Burman Lover"; "The Braes o' Balquither" (1 text from tradition, 1 text said to be a retranslation of a translation into Ojibwe, 1 text of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", 1 non-traditional text of this poem, and 1 text of "The Braes o' Balquhither") (pp. 81, 87-89 in the 1919 edition)
Roud #14099
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Ossian's Serenade" (lyrcs, form)
NOTES [85 words]: Despite the title that Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania pastes on this, it is *not* "Hiawatha's Wooing" from Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha." It doesn't even mention HIawatha! Shoemaker in fact suggests a "Celtic" origin. Hence Shoemaker's citations of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and "The Braes o' Balquhither." The whole section is full of crazy ideas; it looks to me as if this is a modification of "Ossian's Serenade" (Roud files some versions of that song here). See that entry also. - RBW
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