Across the Wide Missouri

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"Across the Wide Missouri" is an alternate title for the traditional American folk song "Shenandoah," a 19th-century river ballad associated with voyageurs and the Missouri River.

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Surface form Occurrences
Across the wide Missouri 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf folk song
river ballad
traditional American folk song
alternateTitleOf Shenandoah NERFINISHED
associatedWith Missouri River NERFINISHED
voyageurs
collectedInCentury 19th century
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre ballad
folk
hasAlternateTitle Oh Shenandoah NERFINISHED
Shenandoah NERFINISHED
hasCulturalRegion American Midwest NERFINISHED
North America NERFINISHED
hasGeographicReference Missouri River NERFINISHED
Shenandoah Valley NERFINISHED
hasLanguage English
hasLyricPhrase I long to hear you
Oh Shenandoah NERFINISHED
across the wide Missouri
hasLyricVariant Across the wide Missouri NERFINISHED
Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you, away, you rolling river NERFINISHED
Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you, away, you rolling river
hasTheme journey
separation
yearning
hasUnknown composer
exact date of origin
includedIn American folk song collections
influenced American folk revival repertoire
notableFor association with the Missouri River
evocative melody
multiple lyric variants
performanceContext river travel
work song
recordedAs Across the Wide Missouri NERFINISHED
Shenandoah NERFINISHED
subject longing
love
river life
travel
timePeriod 19th century
transmission oral tradition
usedBy American voyageurs NERFINISHED
fur traders
sailors

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Shenandoah hasAlternateTitle Across the Wide Missouri
song "Oh Shenandoah" hasAlternativeTitle Across the Wide Missouri
subject surface form: Oh Shenandoah
song "Oh Shenandoah" hasNotableLyric Across the Wide Missouri
subject surface form: Oh Shenandoah
this entity surface form: Across the wide Missouri