yo-wan-ha-de

Updated: July 10, 2025

They have songs for the Green Corn Dance; they have lullabys; and there is a doleful song they sing in praise of drink, which is occasionally heard when the white man has sold Indians whisky on coming to town. Knowing the motive of the song, I thought the tune stupid and maudlin. Standing I take thee. And walk until morning. Yo-wan-ha-de.

Clay MacCauley - The Seminole Indians of Florida: Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84,: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532