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Thread #2793   Message #12511
Posted By: Gene
18-Sep-97 - 11:50 PM
Thread Name: 'New' verses to old songs
Subject: Lyr Add: FLOWER OF THE WILDWOOD^^
Never heard the Flatt & Scruggs version but I have this
LP of Homer & Jethro with it...They're the BEST IMHO!

FLOWER OF THE WILDWOOD
HOMER & JETHRO AT THE CONVENTION
1962 RCA LP-2492

Oh, my flower of the wildwood was skinny and tall.
But for her Adam's apple, she'd have no shape at all.
I can still see her there, sittin' under the trees,
Tyin' knots in her stockin's so it'd look like she had knees.

Then she joined a burlesque show that come to our town,
And she thought as a stripper her fortune was found,
But she bumped into trouble and now she is gone.
Instead of yellin' "Take if off," they hollered "Leave it on."

She would eat like a horse but she never grew big.
'Bout as useless as sprayin' perfume on a pig.
"I'm a natural blond," my flower would swear,
But black was the color of the roots of her hair.