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.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Across the Wide Missouri canonical 4
Across the wide Missouri 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf folk song
river ballad
traditional American folk song
alternateTitleOf Shenandoah
associatedWith Missouri River
voyageurs
collectedInCentury 19th century
countryOfOrigin United States
genre ballad
folk
hasAlternateTitle Oh Shenandoah
Shenandoah
hasCulturalRegion American Midwest
North America
hasGeographicReference Missouri River
Shenandoah Valley
hasLanguage English
hasLyricPhrase I long to hear you
Oh Shenandoah
across the wide Missouri
hasLyricVariant Across the wide Missouri
Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you, away, you rolling river
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
Shenandoah
subject longing
love
river life
travel
timePeriod 19th century
transmission oral tradition
usedBy American voyageurs
fur traders
sailors

How these facts were elicited

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

Shenandoah hasAlternateTitle Across the Wide Missouri
Oh Shenandoah hasAlternativeTitle Across the Wide Missouri
subject linked to: song "Oh Shenandoah"
Oh Shenandoah hasNotableLyric Across the wide Missouri
subject linked to: song "Oh Shenandoah"
linked to: Across the Wide Missouri
Across the Wide Missouri hasLyricVariant Across the wide Missouri
linked to: Across the Wide Missouri
Across the Wide Missouri recordedAs Across the Wide Missouri
Oh Shenandoah hasAlternateTitle Across the Wide Missouri