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Thread #75231   Message #2192996
Posted By: GUEST,SteveB
13-Nov-07 - 04:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Poor Wildwood Flower
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Poor Wildwood Flower
Here are the lyrics for "Poor Wildwood Flower", sung by Harvie June Van. As previously discussed, the songwriter is Bob Ferguson, the label is RCA, #47-7668 (K2WW-1543), Backwoods Music, BMI. The flip side is the song, "When You Are Here".

(Chorus: Pale Wildwood Flower)
Oh he promised to love me, and called me his flower,
That's been blooming to please him, through life's every hour.
Oh we wandered to the hill where the wildflowers grew,
He said "Every flower reminds me of you".
(Chorus: Just you, sweet you)
The lilies he said are your love sweet and true,
And the dew sprinkled rose is the image of you.
The wild morning glory, in branches does tower,
Each sings to me of my pale wildwood flower.
(Chorus: Pale Wildwood Flower)
So he taught me to love him, and promised to stay,
But the summer must end, and the rose fade away.
He left me one morning, and he never knew,
His pale wildwood flower was withering, too.
(Chorus: Poor Wildwood Flower)
Now I'm sinking so low, when the light is growing dim,
In my hands placed a lily, in memory of him.
Tell him I forgive him, though I regret the hour,
He walked off and left me, his pale wildwood flower.
(Chorus: Pale Wildwood Flower)