page_title: The Indian's Prayer
hierarchical_section_title: The Indian's Prayer
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of sheet music
context_page_description: "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 by Rev. John Perry, a Pennsylvania minister. The poem was claimed to reflect the likely thoughts of a boy described as having left "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 appears in William Walker's Southern Harmony and Christian Harmony, under the title "The Indian's Petition".
context_section_description: "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 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".
caption: Cover of sheet music, 1846.
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