Apache by the Shadows had lyrics!?

I think I got this factoid from Q.I but maybe not . . . . . . it got me researching with VERY mixed results! Enjoy!

'Apache': Sonny James

this which most folk think of as the original is so early (61) the Shads featured Jet Harris (smoking here) and Tony Meehan.

“Lonely Silver Dove

Sweet Apache maid

Lonely Silver Dove

Sweet Apache maid

Alone, all alone by the campfire

She dreamed of her love, her delight

Away, far away on the prairie

Her love Golden Hawk shared the night

Sometimes at night with the moon, he would come

Sweet were the moments they shared

But with the dawn, he was gone with the sun

A smoke sign arose from the prairie

A breeze sighed a sad mournful song

The brave Golden Hawk had departed

Had gone to that great, great beyond

Sometimes at night when there's rain in the sky

She hears her love high above

He and his pony go thundering by…” 🤢

Music: Jerry Lordan

Lyrics: Johnny Flamingo and sung by Sonny James

Jorgen Ingmann 1961 heard by the Shadows although Bert Weedon recorded it first though never released it! (go figure! maybe he heard the song!?!??!?)

The truly AWFUL song

Sonny sings from his 1967 RCA album "Young Love". Apache was released in February 1961. First RCA session for SONNY JAMES on February 14, 1961 at Nashville's RCA Victor Studio. A vocal version of the Shadows hit "Apache" is coupled with "Magnetism" for release on RCA 47-7858 at the end of February. It charted at #87 on the Pop charts.Written by Jerry Lordan and Johnny Flamingo.

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/jorgen-ingmann/apache

ALTERNATIVELY!!

Hal Leonard Marching Band . . . . . . say what now!? 

How most of us old fogies remember it! I HATED THIS schtick and this number! Foot Tapper finally got to me and was more my style but by and large my dear brother and I disagreed on this . . . . Steve loved The Shadows!