X: 1
T: Wildwood Flower   [C,w]
C: music: Joseph Philbrick Webster (1860)
R: song, march
Z: 2021 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: C
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w: 1.~Oh I'll twine with my ring-lets and wav-ing black hair
w: 2.~I will dance, I will sing, and my life shall be gay
w: 3.~Oh, he taught me to love him and pro-mised to love
w: 4.~Oh, he taught me to love him, he called me his flower
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z2 EF | "C"[G2E2] Ac | [E2C2] FE | "G"[D2B,2] ED | "C"[G4C4] |
w: with the ro-ses so red and the li-lies so fair
w: I will charm ev-ery heart and his crown I will sway
w: And to che-rish me o-ver all o-thers a-bove
w: That was bloom-ing to cheer him through life's drea-ry hour
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z2 Gc | "C"[e2c2] ed | c2 GG | "F"[A2F2] cA | "C"[G2C2] "*"z2 |
w: and the myr-tle so bright with the em-er-ald hue
w: When I woke from my dream-ing my i-dols of clay
w: How my heart is now won-dering no mis-ery can tell
w: Oh, I long to* see him re-gret the dark hour
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z2 EF | "C"[G2E2] Ac | [E2C2] FE | "G"[D2B,2] ED | "C"[G4C4] | z4 |]
w: and the pale a-ma-ni-ta and hys-sop so blue.
w:~ Our por-tion of love had* all gone aw-ay.
w:~ He left me no warn-ing, no words of fare-well.
w:~ He's gone and neg-lect-ed his pale wild-wood flower.
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