Wildwood Flower Tab par The Carter Family

"Wildwood Flower" 

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I'll twine mid the ringlets of my raven black hair 
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The lilies so pale and the roses so fair 
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The myrtle so bright with an emerald hew 
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And the pale aronatus with eyes of bright blue. 

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I'll sing and I’ll dance, my laugh shall be gay 
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I cease this wild weeping, drive sorrow away
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Tho my heart is now breaking, he never shall know 
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That his name made me tremble and my pale cheek glow

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I’ll think of him never I’ll be wildly gay
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I’ll charm ev’ry heart and the crowd I will sway 
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I’ll live yet to see him regret the dark hour
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When he won, then neglected, the frail wildwood flower

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He told me he loved me and promised to love
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Through ill and misfortune all others above 
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Another has won him, ah misery to tell
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He left me in silence no word of farewell

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He taught me to love him, he called me his flow'r 
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That blossomed for him, all the brighter each hour hour 
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But I woke from my dreaming, my idol was clay 
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My visions of love have all faded away