page_title: From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water
hierarchical_section_title: From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water
caption_attribution_description: "From the Land of Sky Blue Water" sheet music cover from 1909
context_page_description: "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water" is a popular song composed by Charles Wakefield Cadman. He based it on an Omaha love song collected by Alice C. Fletcher. "Sky-blue water" or "clear blue water" is one possible translation of "Mnisota," the name for the Minnesota River in the Dakota language. His collaborator, Nelle Richmond Eberhart, wrote a 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 American soprano Lillian Nordica performed it in concert in 1909.
context_section_description: "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water" (1909) is a popular song composed by Charles Wakefield Cadman. He based it on an Omaha love song collected by Alice C. Fletcher.  "Sky-blue water" or "clear blue water" is one possible translation of "Mnisota," the name for the Minnesota River in the Dakota language. His collaborator, Nelle Richmond Eberhart, wrote a 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 American soprano Lillian Nordica performed it in concert in 1909.
caption: Sheet music cover, 1909
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