Empty Bottle String Band - Wildwood Flower

Oh, I'll twine with my mingles and waving black hair

With the rose so red and the lilies so fair

And the mirltes so bright with the emerald dew

The pale and the leader and eyes look like blue.

I will dance I will sing and my laugh shall be gay

I will charm every heart in her crown I will sway

When I woke from my dreaming my idols were clay

All portions of love had all blown away.

Oh, she taught me to love her and promised to love

And to cherish me over all others above

How my heart is now wondering no misery can tell

She left me no warning no words of farewell.

Yes, she taught me to love her and call me her flower

That was blooming to cheer her through life's dreary hour

Oh, I long to see her and regret the dark hour

She's gone and neglected her pale wildwood flower.

      "Wildwood Flower" is a variant of the song "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets", published in 1860 by composer Joseph Philbrick Webster, who wrote the melody. The original Carter Family first recorded it in 1928 and made it well-known.