It was deep in December, when the time came to go And we boarded the windows, in the new fallen snow And we left Oklahoma, and all that we owned With the Song of the Wildwood, and a lifetime to go We crossed Arizona, to the north country pine Where the rivers are frozen, on the Oregon line She was hardly a woman, scarcely half grown And the wind in the wildwood chills to the bone Now the river is falling, as the first spring winds blow And the flowers are blooming, by the wilderness road Below that dark mountain, she lies there asleep And the song of the wildwood, keeps calling to me There's a song for the sailor, so far from home There's a song for the drifter, so lost and alone Below that dark mountain, she lies there asleep And the song of the wildwood, keeps calling to me
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