Thank you for the "new" "Old" lyrics, folks. Really appreciate these. I suspect that Schumann based his "Happy Farmer" piano piece on a German folk song. I wonder if anyone can find out, or post the folk song and its title. It makes me uncomfortable that in the USA these days the tune is known only by two titles, "Redwing" and "Union Maid." It's a beautiful tune on its own. "Redwing" is a stereotypical image of a young Indian girl as sung in the song by a non-Indian man, idolizing her. I base my opinions on such things by how I believe such songs would be seen by the peoples depicted, in this case, Indians/Native peoples. Some of Stephen Foster's songs are stereotypical of slavery, making it seem "okay" to be an enslaved person. “Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, “ from “Old Black Joe,” a case in point, and although Foster was, I do believe, an early voice sympathizing with black people’s condition then, the lyrics are outdated and need to be revised. "Union Maid" is, well, a political song, and while unions are a very good thing except when corrupted, I do have to wish we had a different image of this tune her. In Schumann’s Songs of Innocence there are several pieces based on folk songs. One is called “Little Folk Song”, one is “Siciliano,” which implies a Sicilian melody, and two are called “Rural Song.”   Many of the titles are suggestive of folk themes, too. http://www.appca.com.au/proceedings/2009/part_2/Green_Elizabeth.pdf