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Thread #23151   Message #255139
Posted By: Barbara Shaw
10-Jul-00 - 12:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Wild Mountain Flowers for Mary (A Mills)
Subject: ADD: Wild Mountain Flowers for Mary ^^
I don't have the sheet music, but here are the lyrics as we have them:

Wild Mountain Flowers
(Allen Mills)

E B7
We grew up living close to each other
E
Went to school and played side by side
A
And I longed for the day I would ask her
E B7 E
If she would be my bride.




We grew up living close to each other
Went to school and played side by side
And I longed for the day I would ask her
If she would be my 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 love from a man
Oh, I tried hard to show that I loved her
And I tried to make her mother understand.

Well my best days are gone, but I'm happy
And my time's not very far away
I'll pick some wild mountain flowers for Mary
And I'll place them on her grave here today.

^^