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Thread #5635   Message #3260085
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
19-Nov-11 - 02:52 PM
Thread Name: ADD: The Indian's Lament / An Old Indian
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: An Old Indian's Lament
See Folksongs of Ontario, recorded with notes by Edith Fowke, 1958, sung by Geraldine Sullivan, Smithsonian Folkways Records. Can be downloaded from Amazon.com and Smithsonian.

A completely different "An Indian's Lament" was written by Julia H. Scott, 1857.
There are several others, including one by Katherine Hardenbergh Johnson, 1887. First verse-
The story of his wanderings far and wide,
An aged chief told to his Indian braves;
Of lake and river and broad ocean tide,
And cities ceaseless roar of human waves;