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Thread #69110 Message #1169603
Posted By: RangerSteve
24-Apr-04 - 06:18 AM
Thread Name: Love songs with happy endings?
Subject: Lyr Add: A FLOWER FROM THE FIELDS OF ALABAMA
Flower From the Fields of Alabama
One fine evening long ago, when the sun was sinking low,\
Down in Alabama 'neath the sunny skies,
It was in the month of June when the roses were in bloom
by the roadside you could see them passing by.
Chorus:
She's a flower from the fields of Alabama,
Take her, for she loves you, this I know,
Health and love where e'er you go, are the blessings I bestow,
she's a flower from the fields of Alabam.
For her blessing and consent, on my journey then I went,
to the mother of the girl I longed to wed.
And as I drew near the place, tears ran down her old sweet face
When I asked her for her daughter and she said:
Chorus
Standing by my cottage door thinking of the days of yore
ANd my dear old wife is standing by my side.
In her eyes true love I see, and she means the world to me,
As she did the day I asked her to be mine.
Chorus
This has always been one of my favorites. There have been a few recordings, one that's available is by Burnett and Rutherford on Document Records.