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Snow Deer
Tin-Pan Alley and old-time song by Composer: Percy Wenrich and Lyricist: Jack Mahoney.
ARTIST: Lyrics from various sources
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes
DATE: Published 1913; according to Meade it was recorded in 1911 by Ada Jones and Bill Murray on Ed 10492.
RECORDING INFO: Snow Deer [Me II-H16] - Mahoney, Jack/Wenrich, Percy
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OTHER NAMES: Sweet Snow Deer
SOURCES: Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc). Johnson (The Kitchen Musician's No. 7: Michigan Tunes), Vol. 7, 1986-87; pg. 5. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), Vol. 2, 1995; pg. 132. Ruth (Pioneer Western Folk Tunes), 1948; No. 72, pg. 26. RCA LCP 1001, Ned Landry and his New Brunswick Lumberjacks - "Bowing the Strings with Ned Landry." Ruffwater Stringband - "Michigan Winter."
NOTES: This popular Tin-Pan Alley song Percy Wenrich and Jack Mahoney
was one of several popular songs about American indians following Kerry Mills' "Red Wing" and their own 1911 hit, "Silver Bell." It was recorded in 1911 by Ada Jones and Bill Murray on Ed 10492 showing that it was published later. The song became a country standard after Ernest Thompson recorded it in 1924, he surely learned it from an earlier recording (either the 1911 or 1913 recording by Campbell and Burr). Ernest Stoneman and Buell Kazee recorded the song in the 1920s and later teh Light Crust Dougboys did a version.
Kuntz: G Major (Johnson, Phillips): D Major. Standard. AB (Johnson): AA'BB' (Phillips). In the repertory of Arizona fiddler Kenner C. Kartchner, who said it was a "pioneer song of long ago." In actuality it was a Tin-Pan-Alley song by Percy Wenrich who composed it around the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, during the craze for ethnic American Indian songs. Johnson (1986) says it is a popular tune with Michigan fiddlers, and indeed from its tin-pan-alley beginnings it entered traditional North American fiddle repertoire. Most older Pennsylvania fiddlers know and play the tune, according to Robert Buckingham, "always in harmony if there are two or more fiddlers." It was in the repertoire of Sandhills/Cape Fear, North Carolina, regional fiddler Lauchlin Shaw, though it was uncharacteristic of most of his repertoire of reels and waltzes. Also in repertoire of New Brunswick, Canada, fiddler Ned Landry.
SNOW DEER Composer: Percy Wenrich and Lyricist: Jack Mahoney. Published in 1913
Sweet Snow Deer mine, moon's a-shine through the pines
While Mohawks sleep, let us creep through the vale
Your cowboy lover your heart will cover
Don't hesitate, it is late, ponies wait
For you and me by the trees in the dale
Hear tom-toms beating. Let's hit the trail.
CHORUS: My pretty Snow Deer, say you will go, dear
From your side I'll never part, every trail leads to your heart
It's time to marry, no time to tarry
Let me carry you away from here, my sweet Snow Deer
The red men come, bullets hum, there'll be some
Left on the trail, I can't fail, cling to me
We'll crown the story with love and glory
Now after all must I fall, hear my call
And fly away while we may, can't you see
Those ranch lights gleaming. Safe there we'll be.
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