{"id":6994,"date":"2002-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-07T15:11:15","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T19:11:15","slug":"wildwood-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6994","title":{"rendered":"Wildwood Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Wildwood.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"259\" alt=\"Wildwood.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Wildwood.mp3\">Wildwood Flower<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"about\">This is a nineteenth-century North American parlor song that has gone into the public domain. There are many variants, some quite amusing when compared to this version. For instance the line:<\/p>\n<p>I will dance I will sing and my life shall be gay<\/p>\n<p>I will charm every heart in the crowd I survey has been changed to:<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I&#039;ll dance, I will sing and my laugh shall be gay<\/p>\n<p>I will charm ev&#039;ry heart, in his crown I will sway<\/p>\n<p>Clearly a misunderstood line, passed along by the oral tradition. This is a fine example of the folk process.<\/p>\n<p>This song was written by Maud and J.P. Weber, and popularized by the Carter Family. Another great Guitar picking song. This is the first song I&#039;ve recorded with my new Martin HD28V that Dick Boak at Martin Guitars helped me pick out at the factory.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[D] I will twine with my mingles of [A] raven [D] black hair<\/p>\n<p>With the roses so red and the [A] lilies [D] so fair<\/p>\n<p>The myrtle so bright in its [G] emerald [D] hue<\/p>\n<p>And the pale amaryllis and [A] violets so [D] blue<\/p>\n<p>Oh he promised to love me and promised to love<\/p>\n<p>And cherish me over all others above<\/p>\n<p>I woke from my dream and my idol was clay<\/p>\n<p>And my portion of loving had all passed away<\/p>\n<p>I will dance I will sing and my life shall be gay<\/p>\n<p>I will charm every heart in the crowd I survey<\/p>\n<p>Though my heart now is breaking he shall never know<\/p>\n<p>How his name makes me tremble my pale cheeks to glow<\/p>\n<p>Oh he taught me to love him and called me his flower<\/p>\n<p>A blossom to cheer him through life&#8217;s weary hour<\/p>\n<p>But now he is gone and left me alone<\/p>\n<p>With the wild flowers to weep and the wild birds to moan<\/p>\n<p>Yes I&#8217;ll dance and I&#8217;ll sing and my life shall be gay<\/p>\n<p>I will banish this weeping, drive troubles away<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll live yet to see him regret that dark hour<\/p>\n<p>When he won and neglected his frail wildwood flower\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Wildwood Flower This is a nineteenth-century North American parlor song that has gone into the public domain. There are many variants, some quite amusing when compared to this version. For instance the line: I will dance I will sing and my life shall be gay I will charm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6994\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wildwood Flower&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8574,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions\/8574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}