Wildwood Flower

Album: Wildwood Flower (1928)
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  • I will twine, I will mingle my raven black hair
    With the roses so red and the lilies so fair
    And the myrtle so bright with it's emerald hue
    The pale and the leader and eyes look like blue

    I will dance, I will sing and my laugh shall be gay
    I will charm every heart, in his crown I will sway
    When I awoke from my dreaming my idol was clay
    All portion of love had all flown away

    Oh, he taught me to love him and promised to love
    And to cherish me over all others above
    How my heart is now wondering no misery can tell
    He's left with no warning, no word of farewell

    Oh, he taught me to love him and called me his flower
    That was blooming to cheer him through life's dreary hour
    Oh, I long to see him and regret the dark hour
    He's one that neglected this pale wildwood flower Writer/s: Alvin Pleasant Carter
    Publisher: Peermusic Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

  • Alcovegodinan4312 from New YorkPale amanita and islip so blue
  • Jack from Moultonwhat does the "pale and the leaders and eyes look like blue" mean?
  • Ronne Davis from FloridaThe Carters sing "I will twine with my mingles", etc. I can find nowhere that the word "mingles" is a noun. The traditional lyrics make more sense.
  • Will Lamey from Live Oak FlPossibly my favorite tune when sung by mother maybele carter. Heart wrenching
  • Candi from Donna, TxI'll Twine mid the ringlets of my raven black hair. (remember the song is about flowers, she twines the flowers in her raven black hair)
    THE MYRTLE SO BRIGHT WITH AN EMERALD HUE (Crape Myrtles are usually pink but there are also white and Lilac ones that grow to be trees)
    it is indeed a great song when the words are correct. Suzy Bogguss does a really nice redition of this song. Here's the song Suzy sings...

    Wildwood Flower
    I'LL TWINE 'MID THE RINGLETS
    (Maud Irving and J.P. Webster)

    I will twine mid my ringlets of raven black hair
    the lilies so pale and the roses so fair
    and the myrtle so bright with an emerald hue
    the pale amaryillis and violets so blue
    i will dance i will sing and my laugh will be gay
    I'll cease this wild weeping drive sorrow away
    tho my heart is now breaking, he'll never know
    his name made me tremble, my pale cheeks to glow

    he told me he loved me and promised to love
    through ill and misfortunes all others above
    now another has won him, oh misery to tell
    he left me in silence no word of farewell
    he taught me to love him, he called me his flower
    that blossomed for him all the brighter each hour
    but i awoke from my dreaming, my idol was clay
    my visions of love have all faded away

    I'll think of him never, I'll be wildly gay
    I'll charm every heart and the crowd i will sway
    I'll live yet to see him regret the dark hour
    he won and neglected the frail wildwood flower
  • Jo from Memphis, Tn, TnA myrtle is a kind of tree that flowers in September. It grows in the southern US.
  • Alan from Sault Ste. Marie, OnI read the lyrics to the song and I'm puzzled by the word mirtle. Can't find the word in any dictionary. Thought it might be some type of flower "and the mirtles so bright with the emerald dew". And the opening lyrics "I'll twine with my mingles" is a phrase I'm not familiar with. Beautiful song however.
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