Carter Family, The - The Church In The Wildwood Lyrics

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My mom remembers this song growing up in parts of Tennessee and Arkansas. Her mother was born in Depression Era Appalachia.

tres beau jaime les carter

some good ole music...refreshes my soul

Glory to god amen Jesus I’m coming back to you and back to the beautiful memories of praising your name growing up

there was a good reason why not too many smiles in those days

Pure gospel from the true flock.

Recording info?

Sunday morning yes!

The Carter family influenced me for my original hymn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlTuLazRnCc

big love from algeria to carter family, sisters and all american folk music

Hadn’t heard that old song in years, when I was a boy now 70 we sang that in church.

Love this old gospel music my favorite

I’ve always loved this song. My grandparents loved it too it was one of their favorite songs. I used to tell my parents that I thought we were related to them because our last name was Carter😂

It's no surprise this family rose above the pretenders to become the first family of country

legends

pure simple n endearing to all who appreciate good ol classic country gospel

oh come come come to the little green mosque in the vale no spot is so dear to my jihadist hood as the little green mosque in the vale

I remember hearing this as a kid. Does anyone know what year this came out? My Grandma told me years ago but I don’t remember

These songs are memories I cherish. My grandma and her 6 daughters would get together with their guitars and sing all these wonderful songs and each woman was an awesome singer and musician. Grandma would get me to join in on the fun and sing (I can't carry a tune in a bucket) but she would praise me anyway along with my mother and Aunts. To this day (I'm 70) I can still remember all the words to these wonderful old songs and will always sing along :-) OH YES, Wildwood Flower was my favorite !! The young man that I was dating when I was 20 came to the house and naturally Moma was singing and playing her guitar and piano. Jim ask my Moma if he could play her guitar. That boy started playing Wildwood Flower and picking that guitar just like my Grandma....we all cried and I knew I was going to married that boy right then!! We were married 5 months later and were together for 49 years until he passed away in 2018. He continued to play that song for me and I continued to cry every time :-)

We sing a version of this in my church. " I know of a dear little chapel". Now I know why I was always drawn to it. The Bluegrass roots.

Seems they are sitting on the bumper of a Ford Model A.

Little Brown Church. Visit Nashua Iowa to see it, if it is still standing.

This music runs through the southerners soul as blood pulses through the body.

SCHIMMELHORN, anybody? :)

Great music, great place to live, they were out of the big town known as Hilton’s Virginia. I was from Benahms Va about a 15 minute ride from the Carter Family Fold . Good people, great music, and clean air, good river fishing too. Visit sometime. You’ll love the trip!

Hey Adam!!! My Great-Great-Grandmother Edna Lillian-Vancourt Croll was born down in Mississippi in the year of 1902 and I just don't know if she listened to the Carter Family or not. Also you might not know that I am her great-great-grandson and I'm just seriously related to her through blood. Did you know that our 39th President Jimmy Carter and Country Singer John Carter Cash are really distant cousins thru his mom June Carter Cash, maternal aunts Helen and Anita Carter, and his Grandmother Maybelle Carter.

This was my Dad's most favorite song, as sung by the Carter Family. May he RIP.

ich spreche hier: wer sperrt die Musikkonten von "the Family Carter??" ich bin Fan u. Aktivist...Antworten an mich. Ich habe 10 Mill. under my Konto in Sw

0300 infantry. you made it.

It is best not start listening to the Carter Family if you have and appointment to go to!

We're singing this song in German to.

Wunderbar !

This is really good, these guys are something else. This is otherworldly.

How the heck does this rate 92 dislike votes!!

So beautifull. It makes me cry. Wow.

I love this group. their children music is from the mid '30s

#praise the Lord.... God bless carter family

SMILES 😊😊😊
GOD THE FATHER
GOD THE SON
GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT

My father Jack ,born 1912 ,in Ashford ,nsw ,Australia, used to sing "church in the wildwood " when i was very young , he became a member of The Waratah Male Voice Choir in the 50s and they sang it , sweet memories of my childhood. Iv listened to the Carters for over 50 yrs , great music !

FOARTE FRUMOS ‼‼‼
SUBLIM ❤

Simplesmente belo, cativante e com muita naturalidade penetra na alma.

they had a gift from the lord to sing for us and the lord and what a great job they did

I know the guitar player that traveled with them and he is still living. Said they also read the bible many times as they traveled to shows.

This is real music and beautiful. Music today in America is pure trash.

♥️soon many love for the singers and the song!

Wild wood Flower.

they had a gift from the lord to do work for him,,,,the work of songs

Love this! Also very fond of the version by the "other Carter family" better known as the Chuck Wagon Gang, recorded in 1936 in Texas.

Love this! Also very fond of the version by the "other Carter family" better known as the Chuck Wagon Gang, recorded in 1936 in Texas.

I love this song oh so much!

Wonderful song

So compelling.

Beautiful...pure Appalachian singing

They are real americans, not like liberal-marxist biotrash.

Who are the 68 dumbasses who didn’t like this??

God bless the Carter family, Music doesn't get any better then this.

Beautiful old time music!

I'm from Nain, Labrador, Newfoundland. I have worked with the Radio Station in the past, and had interviewed couple of the Carter Family Members, one of them was Jeannette Carter, can't remember who the other one is though! Had a great interview with them!

Rest in peace Grandma. See you on the other side.

Fantastic!

Sins are forgiven when men are forgotten

Hell Yeah!!!!

Great country gospell,love hearing it

Great family singing tradition!

I'm from Italy and I love the Carter family

Everything that music should be, right here...

The Carte's brought joy to most of us who heard them make beautiful music but they didn't know any joy .

PURE AMERICANA. LOVE IT AND MISS IT.

The Glasers were the best, then The Statlers!

My mom & dad got married in that church

SOOO RELAXING.

So moving. Beautiful. Lovely beyond words.

Brings back memories of my daddy singing this song. He is gone now 1 year at the age of 98. buried in the family cemetary in Livingston, TN

The Carter's will always have a place in my heart.  When I was growing up as we got our milk from the Cash dairy in Laveen, Arizona.  They were down home and good people.  Yea, I grew up a country girl walking to and from the dairy for our family of seven.  A childhood memory I will never forget.  Their music is heaven to my ears!

Back in 1981 there was an article ran in the paper about my home church and they described it as "the little church in the wildwood." This song describes it to the "t"

The Carter Family were Family a real of country music & gospel music

I'm from northern Canada in the province of Saskatchewan, I grew up listening to the Carters, my mom who's turning 85 this Halloween is a great fan of the ( Family ), Forever a fan of this marvellous singing group

Hey neighbour! I'm from Manitoba and I grew up listening to this music too! Such wonderful music :)

I'm from Calgary, Hello relatives!

I have my farm in Southern Sask near Kindersley....good to meet a fellow Canuck here who appreciates great music!

I sometimes wonder why A.P. Carter never got enough credit for being the impetus that made the Carter Family into the legend that they became. Perhaps we should thank him for recognizing the talent of Maybelle, her sister and their offspring.

I would like to add a comment to the three, besides my one....but I am unable to decipher their meaning....oh well!

What means Thee Joseph?

wesley hill

+wesley hill, I don't think he would care about that. I think he just sang, wrote music, and loved the Lord. I think it be dishonoring him to heap credit or praises on him.

Kan noen skaffe originalteksten til denne?

im back.

"Vem à igreja comigo"... I knew the portuguese version of this song from my church and I didn't know that it had an english version, what a good surprise...

The song was written by Dr. William S. Pitts of the state of Wisconsin in 1857.

Johnie ray

AND MY SMART MOUNTAIN WHO IS SARA CARTER A DAUGHTER, SISTER THEN GO BACK UP THE MOUNTAIN BEFORE YOU HURT YOURSELF TINKING

THE GUY FROM THE BACKWOODS CAME TO TOWN TODAY , GLAD YOU MADE BACK ERWIN KLUWER, MUST BE GERMANN

I SEE A LOT OF PICTURES OF THE CARTERS, WHO IS THE OTHER WOMAN WITH MOTHER MABELLE. CAN'T BE ONE OF HER DAUGHTERS THEY LLOOOK ABOUT THE SAME AGE???????

That is Sara Carter dumbhead!!

They were cousins. Sara sang lead and played back-up, Maybelle played lead guitar and sang harmony. AP was Sara's husband and sang baritone when he felt like it.

My grandma sang this song to me when I was a child. It is cherished.

This is real music. Even in the church of today you can not find great music such as this.

If the Church today sang hymns, perhaps we would '...Be doers of the Word, also.' Great Hymn.

Colette McKinney yy

TOo bad this was made by racists

+Joey COCO WHOA! there's that "R" card

+Joey COCO U R extremely offensive.

Apparently you do not know that Easley Riddle, a black man living in Kingsport Tennessee, about 10 miles from the Carter Home in the Clinch Mountains of Virginia, often traveled with A.P. Carter during his "song catching" travels in the mountains of Virginia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina. Mr Riddle often ate meals at the Carter home and often spent nights sleeping in the guest bedroom. Mr Riddle taught Maybelle how to play slide and blues guitar, and was a highly valued friend to the Carter Family.

Kinda weird behavior for a "racist family" don't you think?

He has received some recognition. More is due him.

So we basically have proof that they weren't racist, and no proof that they were. Your acusation is completely based on nothing. Read a book for once in your life.

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms is a good one too.

Was this one of the Bristol Sessions recordings? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Not exactly, but they did record at the 'Sessions'. A.P. talked his wife Sarah and her sister Maybelle to travel to Bristol, Tenn - just 25 miles across the border from Maces Spring, Va, where they lived. Victor Talking Records was making early commercial recordings of country music,in 1927 and '28. Many groups recorded -- the two most famous that came out of those sessions were Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. Apparently, 'Church in the Wildwood' wasn't recorded in those sessions -- at least it was not released until 1932.

Interestingly there IS a Little Brown Church in the Wildwood, in Bradford Iowa -- and music teacher William Pitts first composed the song way back in 1857, when the church had not yet been built, not until 1862. But he was so struck by the beauty of 'the vale', and the vision of a church there, that he wrote the song.

The church fell on hard times and closed in 1888, but was revived by a special preservation fund. It stands there today -- holding services ... greeting visitors ... and hosting weddings

@Hunter Dowdle, "The Church In The WIldwood" was not recorded during the Carter Family Bristol Sessions (August 1-2, 1927), but later on October 13, 1932 at Victor Studio 2 in Camden NJ.

During the Bristol Sessions, on August 1, 1927, the Carter Family recorded in order, "Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow", "Little Log Cabin By The Sea", "The Poor Orphan Child", and "The Storms Are On The Ocean". On August 2, 1927, the Carter Family recorded "Single GIrl, Married Girl" and "The Wandering Boy" to finish out the six songs recorded at the Bristol Sessions.

Maybelle and Sara Carter were not sisters--they were biologically cousins, they grew up in separate households, with two separate sets of parents. They eventually became sisters-in-law because they married two brothers, A.P. Carter (Sara) and Ezra Carter (Maybelle).

Interesting, the women play the inst
ruments!

In fact, Maybelle had developed a special playing style that apparently was first used in their recordings and concerts.

Maybelle played guitar, and sang harmony. Sara normally sang lead and usually played the auto harp, although she would play 2nd guitar on some songs. A.P. Carter sang lead on a few songs, but he normally sang back-up vocals, and did most of the arranging for the songs he discovered during his "song-catching" travels around the mountains of Virginia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina.

Although the Carter Family used only two instruments, their unique musical style and sound is unusually rich and full because Maybelle developed a superb guitar style of playing both lead and rhythm at the same time. Maybelle was, in effect, two guitarists playing the same guitar! In the 80+ years since the Carters first recorded, I've yet to hear any other group get such incredible full rich sound out of two instruments and three voices! The Carter Family sound and style is absolutely unique, timeless and superb beyond words to describe.

Some classify the Carter Family in with "Hillbilly Music", but I find that classification very problematic, because the Carter instrumentals used only guitar and auto harp and did not use traditional "Hillbilly" instrumentals with banjo, fiddle, base, etc. The unique style of the Carter Family is difficult to classify. If pushed to classify, I think it best to classify the Carter Family as "Folk Music of the highest order" because their pure, raw, real, sound and flawless, superb style, simply drips with an authenticity that all other folk musicians would kill to achieve. The Carters are at the very top of the top tier of all folk musicians in my book. Often called "The First Family of Country Music", I prefer to call the Carter Family "The First Family of American Music" because the influence of the Carters continues to be felt across all genres of American Music too powerfully to be denied.

This played a lot in my childhood, in our home; and, it was in the hymnals in our church. . My father loved The Carter Family and I still have some of his albums, and needless to say, in the Carter Family's case - like father, like son.

jesus , come to me in the day

Thank You Lord for the gift of music. My soul lifted up to the heavens. I love You Lord.

Jesus would listen to this--only this music!

Jesus is a rockabilly fan. Have some respect!

Je suis fan de la Carter Family. It's very good.

The first part of that sentence looked French, but the second part looks Spanish...

The last part looks a lot like english!

these are the songs that built a great nation. when we loose these songs we loose our identity. we won't know where we are going if we forget where we have come from

Mark Loewen accept it’s “lose” not “loose”

Carter family without a doubt top shelf

I remember Andy and Barney singing this too, but there was a time when this was real life.😁😂

So true I grew up listening to songs likw this in Church its sad some kids will never know how good life is like this

Bless Them God forever.

My Grandfather was born in 1923 and would sing me this every Sunday

We sang this song in grade school and I cherish it to this day!

I like this version the best.

me too.