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Thread #38028   Message #816377
Posted By: GUEST,gladyscelcorner@netscape.net
01-Nov-02 - 06:03 PM
Thread Name: Wildwood flower lyric question
Subject: Lyr Add: WILDWOOD FLOWER (Nova Scotia)
Back in 1950 - in Nova Scotia, Canada, we sang WILDWOOD FLOWER

OUR LYRICS A R E   D I F F E R E N T from Carter Family, etc...
FOLLOWING ARE THE LYRICS WE HAVE.....COULD ANYONE TELL ME
THE ORIGIN OF OUR LYRICS???? HAS ANYONE EVER HEARD THIS VERSION???

WILDWOOD FLOWER

She is waiting for me in a rose colored bower,
And her eyes are like violets after a shower,
For she's dreaming of dreams through the long summer hours,
my sweetheart, my own, my frail wildwood flower.

All the wild forest creatures are under her spell,
On her shoulder the dove it's love secrets will tell,
And the wild dappled fawn comes to lie at the feet,
of my frail, wildwood flower, So gentle and so sweet.

I will pick tender blossoms to twine in her hair,
lovely roses so red and the lilies so fair,
Lovely myrtle so bright with the emerald hue,
Buttercups yellow, forget-me-nots blue

There's no artist can paint her, no poet can write,
How she warms this old heart like the sunbeams so bright,
I will love and protect her and never more part,
From that frail wildwood flower that twines around my heart.

H E L P !@!!!!
Gladys