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| name      = Cora, the Indian Maiden's Song
| cover     = CoraTheIndianMaidensSong1851.png
| alt       =
| caption   = Sheet music cover, 1851
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| written   =
| published = 1851
| writer    =
| composer  = [[George Alexander Lee|Alexander Lee]]
| lyricist  = [[Shirley Brooks]]
}}
'''"Cora, the Indian Maiden's Song"''' ('''"The Wild Free Wind"''') is a [[song]] written by [[Shirley Brooks]] for his [[burletta]] ''The Wigwam'' sometime before 1847. [[George Alexander Lee|Alexander Lee]] composed the music. In the song, Cora, the Indian [[maiden]], is praising the wind: "Oh! The wild free wind is a Spirit Kind, And it loves the Indians well." The song's chorus is:<ref>Brooks, "Cora, the Indian Maiden's Song" (sheet music).</ref>
{{poemquote|It speeds her dart to the red deer's heart
As he bounds from his secret lair
And whether o'er sea or land it go, or land it go.
She loves to hear the wild wind blow,
To hear the wild wind blow.}}
In the 1847 London presentation of ''The Wigwam'', [[Mary Anne Keeley|Mary Keeley]] played Cora where she received high praise for her rendering of the song.<ref>''The Musical World'', p. 108: "The frontispiece is accompanied by a lithograph, purporting to be a likeness of Miss Mary Keeley, as she appeared singing Mr. Alexander Lee's song in Cora, in ''The Wigwam''. Were the song no better than the likeness, we could hardly have awarded it so much praise as we have done."</ref>
==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Brooks, Shirley (w.); Lee, Alexander (m). "Cora, the Indian Maiden's Song" (Sheet music). New York: Firth, Pond & Co. (1851).
* ''The Musical World'' Vol. XXII (No. 7, Saturday, February 13, 1847). London: W.S Johnson (1847).
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