"From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water" (1909) is a popular song composed by Charles Wakefield Cadman.
He based it on an Omaha love song collected by Alice C. Fletcher.
[1] Cadman's collaborator, Nelle Richmond Eberhart, wrote a poem as the lyrics: From the Land of Sky-blue Water, They brought a captive maid, And her eyes they are lit with lightnings, Her heart is not afraid!
But I steal to her lodge at dawning, I woo her with my flute; She is sick for the Sky-blue Water, The captive maid is mute.
[2] The song became widely popular after noted American soprano Lillian Nordica performed it in concert in 1909.