Yeah, it's funny how they have their MIDI files set up to make them difficult to download.

For the record, I think the lyrics should be posted here. Note that there's a very similar song in the Digital Tradition, She's a Flower from the Fields of Alabama (click).

Flower Blooming in the Wildwood

VERSE 1
On a evening long ago, when the sun was sinking low
My true lover went to sail upon th sea
It was in th month of June
And th roses were in bloom
When he took me in arms and said to me,

CHORUS
Your a flower blooming in th wildwood
A flower that is bloomin' there for me
Sweeter than th morning dew
And I'll soon return to you
A flower that is blooming there for me

VERSE 2
But a letter came to me, from th Captain of th sea
He told me that my darl'ns over due
O, the shock and great surprise
Made th tear drops in my eyes
When I thought of th last words that he said,

VERSE 3
He cannot come back to me, he got drowned in th sea
And all my weary wait are over now
But when it's in th month of June
And th roses are in bloom
It seems that I can hear my lover say,

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Here is the Traditional Ballad Index entry on the song:

She's a Flower from the Fields of Alabama

DESCRIPTION: "It was one evening long ago" when the singer went to ask the hand of the girl. Her mother gladly consents. He looks back happily. Chorus: "She's a flower from the fields of Alabam, Take her for she loves you, yes I know...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1928 (recording, Burnett & Rutherford)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
DT, FLWRALBM
RECORDINGS:
Emry Arthur, "She's a Flower from the Fields of Alabama" (Vocalion 5234, c. 1928)
Burnett & Rutherford, "She's a Flower from the Fields of Alabama" (Gennett 6688/Challenge 420, 1929 (rec. 1928); on BurnRuth01)
Notes: Given the near-lack of plot, I have to suspect that this is a nineteenth century parlour piece. But I can't trace it back past the Burnett & Rutherford recording (made at their last dated recording session in 1928). - RBW
File: DTflweral

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