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"The Indian's Prayer" is a popular song with music composed by I.B. Woodbury in 1846. The 1833 original lyric, used in altered form, was published as "The Indian's Entreaty" in a Universalist journal〔The New-York Christian Messenger and Philadelphia Universalist (Vol. 3, No. 9, Dec. 1833)〕 by Rev. John Perry, a Pennsylvania minister. The poem was claimed to reflect the likely thoughts of a boy described as having left (or escaped) "some years ago" from "one of many colleges" to return to his native tribe. Woodbury, a composer of religious music, dedicated the song to his friend and student L.O. Emerson, Esq.. A setting of the text (similar to Woodbury's version) appears in William Walker's Southern Harmony and Christian Harmony, under the title "The Indian's Petition". ==Lyrics== Rev. Perry's original poem, in 11-syllable lines: :''Let me go to my home in the far, far west,'' :''To the scenes of my youth, which I love the best.'' :''Where cedars are green, and the bright waters flow,'' :''Where kindred will greet me—white man let me go.'' :''I long for the spot where the cataract plays,'' :''Where I've sported so free in my infant days,'' :''And the deep forest, too, where with quiver and bow,'' :''I've chas'd the wild deer—Oh! there let me go.'' :''Let me go to the hills and vallies so fair,'' :''Let me breath in freedom my own mountain air;'' :''And to my poor mother whose heart will o'erflow,'' :''When she looks on her boy—to her let me go.'' :''Let me go to my sire, by whose vet'ran side'' :''I have march'd to the fight in my spirits pride;'' :''With him I have conquer'd the insolent foe—'' :''To that Chieftain-father, once more let me go.'' :''And oh! let me go to my dark-eyed maid;'' :''We've climbed o'er the hill-tops, repos'd in the glade,'' :''As the fawn she's gentle, her heart, pure as snow,'' :''And she loves the poor Indian—oh! let me go.'' :''Then let me away to my own forest home,'' :''And ne'er from it again, will I wish to roam—'' :''Oh! there let my ashes in peace be laid low'' :''To my home in the west, white man, let me go.'' :''Disdaining their fetters, the Indians proud soul,'' :''Could not bend in submission, or brook their control—'' :''But free, as the wind, with morning's first dawn,'' :''To his lov'd forest home, the red boy had gone!'' The lyrics as they appear in Woodbury's original sheet music:〔Woodbury, "The Indian's Prayer" (Sheet music).〕 have been altered from the original by an unknown hand, mainly to be in 12-syllable lines rather than 11. Several undated broadsides titled "Indian Hunter" offer variants on these words.〔http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/amss:@field%28TITLE+@od1%28The+Indian+hunter++Printed+and+for+sale+at+G++S++Harris%27+S++E++Cor++of+4th+++Vine+Sts+,+Phila++%5Bn++d+%5D%29%29〕〔http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/amss:@field%28TITLE+@od1%28The+Indian+hunter++H++De+Marsan,+Publisher,+54+Chatham+Street,+N++Y++%5Bn++d+%5D%29%29〕〔http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?amss:1:./temp/~ammem_vT92::/〕 :''Let me go to my home in the far distant west,'' :''To the scenes of my childhood in innocence blest;'' :''Where the tall cedars wave and the bright waters flow,'' :''Where my fathers repose. Let me go, let me go.'' :''Where my fathers repose. Let me go, let me go.'' :''Let me go to the spot where the cataract plays,'' :''Where oft I have sported in boyhood’s bright days,'' :''And greet my poor mother, whose heart will o’erflow'' :''At the sight of the child. Let me go, let me go.'' :''At the sight of the child. Let me go, let me go.'' :''Let me go to my sire, by whose battlescar’d side,'' :''I have sported so oft in the morn of my pride,'' :''And exulted to conquer the insolent foe,'' :''To my father, the chief, let me go, let me go.'' :''To my father, the chief, let me go, let me go.'' :''And oh! let me go to my flashing eyed maid,'' :''Who taught me to love, ’neath the green willow’s shade,'' :''Whose heart, like the fawn’s, leaps as pure as the snow,'' :''To the bosom it loves. Let me go, let me go.'' :''To the bosom it loves. Let me go, let me go.'' :''And oh! let me go to my wild forest home—'' :''No more from its life-cheering pleasures to roam.'' :''’Neath the groves of the glen, let my ashes lie low—'' :''To my home in the woods, let me go, let me go.'' :''To my home in the woods, let me go, let me go.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Indian's Prayer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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