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Lyr Req: Wild Mountain Flowers for Mary (A Mills)

13 May 05 - 06:37 PM (#1484503)
Subject: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: GUEST,Mary V.

Does anyone know this song ? I haven't been able to find the words on the internet .   Thanks for your help .


13 May 05 - 06:45 PM (#1484507)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: Peace

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Tu_MwgqMs4cJ:www.myyodeling.net/page3.html+%22wild+flowers+for+mary%22&hl=en

The CD is available here.


13 May 05 - 08:12 PM (#1484563)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: Inukshuk

We hear that one a lot around here at the summer jams.

I picked some wild mountain flowers for Mary
And told her I loved her today
She said that we never could marry
For her mother would stand in the way.

That's all I can remember, but I'll listen a lot closer the next time I hear it.


13 May 05 - 08:17 PM (#1484565)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: Peace

Dang,

The title is

"Wild Mountain Flowers for Mary"

maybe. I'll search.


13 May 05 - 08:25 PM (#1484572)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: Peace

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:-yadvLMq2OUJ:www.musicoutfitter.com/store/item/032511111227/classicbluegrass.html+%22wild+mou

Sound clip here.

I cannot locate words, but it's available from about three places on CD.


13 May 05 - 08:39 PM (#1484580)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: Q (Frank Staplin)

A version by "Lost and Found, but can't find their lyrics.

Some other songs,
Flowers for Mary

flowers


15 May 05 - 09:06 PM (#1485726)
Subject: Lyr Add: WILD MOUNTAIN FLOWERS FOR MARY (A Mills)
From: Jim Dixon

Copied from http://www.bluegrasslyrics.com/all_song.cfm-recordID=sp1447.htm

WILD MOUNTAIN FLOWERS FOR MARY a.k.a. WILD MOUNTAIN FLOWERS
Allen Mills

We grew up living close to each other,
Went to school, sat side by side,
And I longed for the day when I would ask her
If she would be my loving bride.

CHORUS: I picked some wild mountain flowers for Mary
And I told her I loved her today,
But she said we never could marry,
That her mother would stand in the way.

Her daddy died when she was very young,
And she never knew the love of a man.
I tried so hard to make her happy,
And tried to make her mother understand.

Now my days of youth are gone and I'm so happy,
And my time isn't very far away.
I picked some wild mountain flowers for Mary,
And placed them on her grave today.

I picked some wild mountain flowers for Mary,
And placed them on her grave today.

[Sung by Lost & Found on "Classic Bluegrass" and on "Rebel Records: 35 Years of the Best in Bluegrass (1960-1995)," and by Lost Highway on "Lifetime of Sorrow."]


15 May 05 - 09:27 PM (#1485741)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: Peace

Jim,

That is one beautiful song. Thank you very much for posting the words. I am definitely gonna learn it.

Bruce


15 May 05 - 09:43 PM (#1485748)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: GUEST,'Searchin', I'm Always Searchin'

It really does help to SEARCH Mudcat FIRST

The information on this song has been on Mudcat since 2000. I used to make this mistake often, just remember to Search Here First.


15 May 05 - 10:43 PM (#1485769)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: Peace

SIAS,

That's nice. Put the words "Wildflowers for Mary" into/onto the search engine for both DT and Forum. Let me know what you get. Now, if you have a way to do it that doesn't quote the title as given, please tell me and I will shine your shoes at least once.


15 May 05 - 11:32 PM (#1485792)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: GUEST,SIAS

You have a valid point Brucie. The Forum results give 164 hits and not nary a one comes up with the desired information. If someone is so far off on the guess of the correct song title, as in this case, where wild MOUNTAIN flowers is needed instead of just wildflowers.

However, with a song search, it still is best to try a SEARCH first and we both agree on that.

I'm a po' boy without shoes so I'm glad you did not have to shine my feet!


15 May 05 - 11:44 PM (#1485801)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: Peace

LOL

Thank you. Thought I was doing something wrong. Story of my life. I'm a po' boy, too, so it would have been a spit shine. You lucked out.

Bruce


15 May 05 - 11:46 PM (#1485803)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: GUEST,SIAS

You are a RIOT Brucie, and a good guy to boot.


15 May 05 - 11:57 PM (#1485807)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: Peace

Ya can't DO that. Ya GOT no boots. hehehe

Either way, your advice is good. Search first on the Mudcat, THEN go visit Mr Google.

Measure twice, cut once, not the other way 'round.


16 May 05 - 12:04 AM (#1485810)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: GUEST

Good play on words Brucie. You always have a come back, don't you?

I, of course, did not mean "boot" as to "Kick" but "to boot" meaning "also" (For our over the pond and over the seas friends that may not understand North American idioms).


16 May 05 - 12:11 AM (#1485813)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: Peace

It's been a pleasure speaking with you, GUEST. Thank you. It's night here and I'm off. Have a great day to boot.

Bruce


16 May 05 - 11:56 AM (#1486040)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: GUEST,SIAS

Maybe some Joe Clone will change the title to 'Wild Mountain Flowers for Mary' and/or include it with the several other Related Threads.

I also once thought this was an "old country song" but it is a bluegrass song written in the 1960s or '70s.


16 May 05 - 11:08 PM (#1486366)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: GUEST,leeneia

Searching the DT is an uncertain proposition. As a test, I searched for the phrase "has gone for a soldier," and the DT gave me two songs with that phrase in it.

However, when I searched for "flowers for Mary," which occurs several times in the song being discussed, it found nothing, although the song is said to have been in the DT since 2000.

So let us not be too hard on those who fail to find what they are asking about in the DT.


16 May 05 - 11:34 PM (#1486386)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: GUEST

The registered title is "Wild Mountain Flowers." What's the problem? Isn't that what Mudcat has?
(In Rebel Records Anniversary Box Set, "Rebel Records 35 Years of the best Bluegrass(1960-1995)," cd3, track 64).


16 May 05 - 11:39 PM (#1486391)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: GUEST,brucie

Well, we now know the answer to "Where Have All the Flowers gone?"


20 Sep 10 - 01:38 AM (#2990095)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wildflowers for Mary....old country song
From: Gene

out of curiosity i checked utube and a version is there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDuW9mCozFk

G