The tune has been running through my head these past few days (I can halfway hear the delicate banjo accompaniment), and another verse has swum up, though I'm still missing the second part to that first verse:

Then Georgeanne's boy Lawrence lived on the place a spell
They say that he ran moonshine, and it took his life as well
He went up to Cincinnati, playing his guitar
Stepped out on the freeway and got run down by a car.

Now what his woman's name was, I never heard them say
The cabin where they used to live has rotted clean away
But I know that she was there, for where the front door used to swing
A plant called "live forever" comes up there every spring.

Chorus: See all them bushes, sprung up with wild rose vines
In tangled stands of flowering quince their thorny tendrils twine
Desert yucca in the woods and banks of daffodils
A legacy of women who settled in these hills.

Does that help any?
Lynn

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 15-Aug-02.