X:1 T:Dakota Love Song #1 C:Transposed for NAF by Robert Gatliff C:Santee Sioux - Transcribed by Alfred Longley Riggs (1869) M:3/4 L:1/4 K:E (3f/c/B/ | c2 (3f/c/B/ |{c}B2 A/F/|B A/ F A/| w:He~~ ~~nan-~zhin we, He~~ ~~nan-~zhin we, U-~kta ce, U-~kta ke- F F z/ c/|B/c/ B A/F/ |B A/ F A/|F F |] w:ya ca! Wa-~mdi-~du-~ta U-~kta ce, U-~kta ke-~ya ca!
Source:
"TAH'-KOO WAH-KAN; The gospel among the Dakotas" by Stephen R. Riggs (1869) included an
appendix: "Dakota songs and music" by Alfred Longley Riggs (son of Stephen).
Song No. 1 on page 476; translation on page 460.
Context:
Sung by the faithful maiden, while her chosen brave is absent, rejecting a mercenary suitor.
Transalation:
Stay there, I say! Stay there, I say!
Come he will; he'll come; he said so.
Scarlet Eagle, he will come, he'll come; he said so.