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From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water
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Wikipedia article
"'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.[https://filemaker.cla.umn.edu/dakota/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=1630 "Mnisota"] , Dakota Dictionary Online. University of Minnesota Department of American Indian Studies (2010). Accessed October 6, 2016.
Composition
Cadman's collaborator, Nelle Richmond Eberhart, wrote a poem as the lyrics:
The song became widely popular after noted American soprano Lillian Nordica performed it in concert in 1909.
Representation in other media
*An arrangement of the song for harp and flute is performed by Harpo Marx in the 1940 Marx Bros. film, 'Go West'.
*Blanche DuBois in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee Williams sings a part of the song in Scene Two while she is in the bathroom.
*The first line, "From the Land of Sky-blue Water", is sung by the Three Stooges in the film 'The Three Stooges In Orbit' (1962), at about the three-quarter point in the film, before they launch into space for the first time.
*The Hamm's Brewery used a version of the lyrics- "From the land of sky blue waters/ comes the beer refreshing" - as an advertising jingle through the mid-twentieth century, accompanied by pseudo-Native American drumming.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/o83xxWCel8g Ghostarchive] and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20101023031329/http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=o83xxWCel8g Wayback Machine]:
References
Bibliography
* Cadman, Charles Wakefield (m); Eberhart, Nelle Richmond (w). "Hamm's Brewery" (Sheet music). Boston : White-Smith Music Publishing Company (1909).
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