Anona

Letra y Música Mabel McKinley, as Vivian Grey

(Leo Feist, New York, 1903)

Escrita supuestamente por Mabel McKinley, sobrina de William McKinley, con el pseudónimo de Vivian Gray, en realidad es un tema compuesto por el prolífico Robert Keizer King (1862-1932), que solía utilizar sobrenombres femeninos como el de Mary Earl, o Betty Chapin, entre otros.

Letra:

In the western state of Arizona,

Lived an Indian maid;

She was called the beautiful Anona so 'tis said.

Graceful as a fawn was she,

Just as sweet as she could be,

Eyes so bright, dark as night,

Had this pretty little Arizona Indian maiden.

All the chiefs who knew her,

Came to woo her,

For her pined

To marry she declined,

At last she changed her mind,

But 'twas not a chief so grand, who won her heart and hand,

But a warrior bold, who wooed her with a song:

Chorus:

My sweet Anona, in Arizona,

There is no other maid I'd serenade;

By camp-fires gleaming, of you I'm dreaming,

Anona, my sweet Indian maid.

When her father heard that his Anona,

Loved the youthful brave;

Straight-a-way he said he would disown her, things looked grave.

She must marry "heap big chief,"

Sweet Anona hid her grief,

Ran away, so they say,

And got married to the man she loved without delaying.

Then her father sought he,

Never caught her,

Till one day,

When two years passed away,

They both came back ot stay,

Then the chief declared a truce, when they named their young papoose,

After him and to his grand-child he would sing.

Versiones destacadas:

👉🏽 Columbia 32311. Gilmore´s Band (1903)

👉🏽 Columbia 32316. Henry Burr (1903)

👉🏽 Columbia 1597. Columbia Band (1903)

👉🏽 Columbia 1602. Henry Burr (1903) 🔊

👉🏽 Columbia 1619. Vess L. Ossman (1903)

👉🏽 Edison 8474. Edison Grand Concert Band (1903)

👉🏽 Edison 150. Mabel McKinley (1909)

👉🏽 Victor 2521. Arthur Pryor´s Band (1903)

👉🏽 Victor 2551. Harry Macdonough (1903)

👉🏽 Victor 2553. Vess L. Ossman (1903)

👉🏽 Zonophone 5588. Victor Herbert´s Band (1903)

👉🏽 Zonophone 5634. George Alexander (1903)

👉🏽 Zonophone 5761. Hager´s Orchestra (1904)

👉🏽 Leeds 4122. Henry Burr (1903-04)

👉🏽 Imperial 44863. Imperial Military Band (1906)

👉🏽 Imperial 45226. Vess L. Ossman (1906)

Hiawatha (A Summer Idyl)

Letra: James J. O'Dea; Música: Neil Moret

(Whitney Warner Pub. Co., Detroit, 1902)

Letra:

Oh the moon is all agleam on the stream

Where I dream here of you my pretty Indian maid.

While the rustling leaves are singing high above us overhead

In the glory of the bright summer night

In light of the shadows of the forest glade

I am waiting here to kiss your lips so red.

There's a flood of melodies on the breeze

From the trees and of you they breathe so tenderly

While the woodlands all around are resounding your name,

Oh my all in life is you only you

Fond and true and your own forevermore I'll be.

Hear then the song I sing with lips aflame.

Refrain:

I am your own your Hiawatha brave – my heart is yours you know

Dear one I love you so

Oh Minnehaha gentle maid decide – decide and you'll be,

My Indian bride.

In the tresses of your hair, lies a snare and it's there

Where my heart a willing captive is.

Oh my woodland queen I pray you'll hold it ever in your care

In my little birch canoe love with you

Just we two down the stream of life in wedded bliss

I would drift sweetheart with you my lot to share.

When the birds upon the wing in the spring

Gaily sing of the green and golden summer time

When the snows of early winter robe the woodlands in white,

Then your Hiawatha free I will be

And to thee ev'ry thought of mine will o'er incline.

Heed then the vows I pledge to thee this night.

Versiones destacadas:

👉🏽 Edison 8425. Harry Macdonough [#1, 07.1903]

👉🏽 Columbia 1155. The Columbia Orchestra [#3, 06.1903]

👉🏽 Columbia 1406. Dan W. Quinn [#3, 07.1903]

👉🏽 Victor 2443. Sousa´s Band [#3, 11.1903]

Otras versiones:

👉🏽 Edison 8347. Edison Concert Band (1902)

👉🏽 Columbia 32092. Columbia Orchestra (1903)

👉🏽 Columbia 1406. Henry Burr (1903) 🔊

👉🏽 Columbia 1540. Vess L. Ossman (1903)

👉🏽 Columbia 1579. J.W. Myers (1903)

👉🏽 Victor 1923. Metropolitan Orchestra (1903)

👉🏽 Victor 2049. Victor Symphony Orchestra (1903)

👉🏽 Victor 2351. Harry Macdonough (1903)

👉🏽 Victor 2411. Parke Hunter (1903)

👉🏽 Victor 2399. Royal Italian Marine Band (1903)

👉🏽 Victor 31368. Sousa´s Band (1903)

👉🏽 Victor 2745. Victor Orchestra (1904)

👉🏽 Zonophone 5575. Dan W. Quinn (1903)

👉🏽 Zonophone 5582. Hager´s Orchestra (1903)

👉🏽 Zonophone 5597.Victor Herbert´s Band (1903)

👉🏽 Zonophone 5677. Hobart Smock (1903)

👉🏽 Zonophone 5736. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan (1904)

👉🏽 Imperial 44909. Frank C. Stanley (1906)