Carter Family, The - Wildwood Flower Lyrics

I remember hearing this in slender the arrival

June had never lose her coolness factor

Beautiful women and music.

Beautiful.

How could anybody mark this piece of music history a negitive is beyond me...

People who think Cardi B is talented.

Parabéns .

Can't get enough of good contry roots of white music

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 emanita and the hyssop so blue
I will dance, I will sing and my laugh shall be gay
I will charm every heart, in his crown I will sway
I woke from my dreaming, my idol was clay
All portions of loving had all flown away
But he taught me to love him and promised to love
And to cherish me over all others above
My poor heart is wondering no misery can tell
He left with no warning, no word of farewell
Well you told me you love me and called me your flower
That was blooming to cheer you through life's dreary hour
I live to see him regret life's dark hour
He's gone and neglected this pale wildwood flower
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love to see the MOTHER....

Theres a bunch of people who didnt worry about having low action on their guitars and complain about having small hands, they just got on with it, goes to show if you really want to learn you will

If you're a Country guitar picker, someone will ask you if you can play the Wild Wood Flower.

I love helens voice at the ending❤

When I was a child here in England my father put this on our radiogram ( a large piece of furniture with a turn table and radio) and I became fascinated by the solo and the song ..as I grew up I got a guitar and learned to play it and still love it to this day ..this is a great gateway fir guitar players

Ghosts whispering in the wind. They're all dead mostly.

2019 anyonee?

[Verse 1]
Oh, I'll twine with my mingles and waving black hair
With the roses so red and the lilies so fair
And the myrtle so bright with the emerald dew
The pale amanita and eyes look like blue

[Verse 2]
I will dance, I will sing, and my loft shall be gay
I will charm every heart, in his crown I will sway
When I woke from my dreaming my idol was clay
All portion of love had all flown away

[Verse 3]
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 me no warning, no words of farewell

[Verse 4]
Oh, he taught me to love him and called me his flower
That's blooming to cheer him through life's dreary hour
Oh, I long to see him and regret the dark hour
He's gone and neglected this pale wildwood flower

Mother Maybelle 's style of playing guitar & autoharp was so special that no one has ever been able to play like it. Many have tried but there is always something lacking. Plus her sweet smile & quiet personality just tugged at the heart. Always wondered how she was able to ride her on 3 lively girls. She was remarkable.

It's interesting that while Maybelle's singing was widely considered inferior to Sara's (when they were still performing as the original Carter Family), she was still a pretty darn good lead singer. Mature voice, pitch spot on. Anita had the loveliest voice of all the sisters, but Helen was also a great musician. A true multi instrumentalist, and the only one in the family who was able to read music. She did a lot of arranging, too. June got a bit of a raw deal, she was often considered the "ugly duckling" who didn't play stringed instruments as well as her mother or sang as well as her sisters. But she was still a better musician that most of the population.

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A P Carter stole lots of songs from unknowing people.

Or you could say he saved these songs from obscurity. Perspective I guess.

How do you know?

What year would this be?

Definitely the early to mid sixties

das my family

Thank God for Mother Maybelle.

Oh yeah

As big as Johnny Cash was he always gave the utmost respect to the Carters

I dedicate this to Diana, Princess of Wales (July 1, 1961-August 31, 1997) because this song reminds me of her

what language are they singing?

Does anyone know if this is the song that was featured at the opening of a season 1 episode of the TV show Fargo?

Does anyone care?

I am lonely and waiting for my wildwood flower.

Only two kinds of guitar players. Ones who can play Wildwood Flower and ones who can’t.

what genre is this?

Bluegrass

ah show them how to do it right Maybelle.

An old boy from Tennessee taught me how to pick this when we were deployed over seas..i had never heard it, but he told me i'd never forget it...man, was he right..changed my life..I don't let a day go by without listening to this song...It is that important ..

Music doesn't get much better than this. Maybelle Carter - what a talent!

cant believe there are 702 curmudgeons out there.

Hey! I'm a curmudgeon and I loved this!

I'd take me some Helen any day of the week!

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There are some very good versions of this song, but somehow it just doesn't sound right without the accent. Thanks for the upload!

As a concert pianist who never knew much about Country Music, I have grown a great appreciation for it because of watching the Ken Burns series. I always liked instrumental Bluegrass but was unaware of the rest of it. Thank you, Ken Burns, and thanks to all those country artists who have been and those who are still with us.

This is Beautiful from Ireland

que harmonioso!

whats the story telling in the song

Great job on this wonderful old song!

Mother Maybelle, the first guitar hero.

Mother Maybelle is so talented, as well as her family. Something about her looks very hardened, probably from a very difficult upbringing. That is one chick not to fuck with.

This makes me think if my father, he didn't sing but I remember him playing this tune on his guitar when I was growing up ❤

Same story here, it was the only song he could play.

@Doc Riordan I don't know why but that makes me happy to have such a random thing in common with someone else on this planet 😊

@Cyclops 3000 agreed it is different in this day and age. I was going to write the same comment until I saw yours so just added to it.

THE SEEDS OF POPULAR MUSIC WERE SEWN,,WOW

Maybelle's signature song, but Reese Witherspoon could sing it beautifully as June.

O brother where at thou brought me here.

This classic song and the performance shown here is the definitive version of that great tune. Amazing singing and the wonderful guitar playing is just superb. Always enjoy listening to Wildwood Flower.

WOW,WOW WOW"

mmm... girls

Which one of these might be June?

The one sitting down, then Mother Maybelle, Anita, and the blonde is Helen.

Love that old classic music!!

I love homespun music (forget the recording studios)...And the Carter Family is the holy grail!

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Great tribute to the Carter family on the Country Music documentary on PBS. Be sure to watch all 8 episodes .

It was sooo wonderful...left me in tears...

A great series - Ken Burn's documentaries have faithfully captured so much about American culture and history.

Been desperate to watch it. Ut I'm in the UK and don't get pbs..... Gonna have to wait....

Also watching Ken Burns doc, and was enlightened to hear about Maybelle's pioneering guitar work, i.e. "the Carter Scratch" or "thumb-lead style." This technique involved playing a melody on the instrument's three bass strings while simultaneously strumming the three treble strings for rhythm. She used thumb and finger picks while playing." (wiki excerpt)

Great song 🙂

Mother Maybelle's picking blows my mind!

She's not just picking but playing the rhythm at the same time

This was my great grandpas favorite song

I'm an 80s metal head not hair bands but real metal and I love to play this song both on my guitar and on my radio

In the 80s everybody hated Metallica in the Midwest. Ezo, Judas priest, iron maiden, Megadeth, anthrax , Masi , Krokus, Scorpions. It wasn't until 1989 with "One". 80s were done by then

21k thumbs up here.

Damn that's my great Grammy

when they all come in they sound like angels

Straight out of the trailer park

That's very disrespectful but expected from a millennial

674 people left with no warning, nor words of farewell.

Watching Ken Burns documentary Country Music. This is a great song.

Ben Kletzing
Good for you Ben! Keep playing!

@BlazeBliss thanks mean a lot!!

Ben Kletzing
😊

I started watching part 1 today and it brought me to this. Always loved the original

@Ben Kletzing depends where youre at...definitely not lost if you keep it alive

Sirens.so beautiful

The lady sitting down looks like June!

June, Maybelle, Anita and Helen(blonde)

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They can really harmonize so well that is so much a pleasure to watch that is a good song the song to always be remembered for

Love it thanks!!

Who is that on the right of Mother Maybelle

Magnifiques Mesdames!!!

Excellent!!!

Pure Heaven!!

Strumming is Important. .

i though Wildwood Flower was a song about weed

That's, "Wildweed Flower!"

THAT'S BECAUSE YOU DRANK THE BONG WATER, BONEHEAD.

NPR called them the Big Bang of Country Music.

Well its a well known country song sung by the old family's conuntry group.

Can anyone name these ladies singing by their first names ?

Having lived many years and become successful in most of my endeavors, I often come here to listen to this humble music as it always reminds me of my roots and keeps me close to them.. never straying too far from where I came from...

Ads are annoying and i boycott what y'all shove down my throat

For anybody who doesn't know, the lead vocalist there was "Mother" Maybelle Carter; she became Johnny Cash's mother-in-law when he married her daughter June (seated bottom left)

What year was this song made?

The ORIGINAL Carter Family consisted pf A. P. Carter, Sarah, his wife, and his Sister in Law, Maybelle. Any version without A. P. (Alvin Pleasance) and an addition of other family members is and was decidedly inferior and not a fair representation of what the Carter Family was all about! I'm sorry I wasted my time with this turkey!

Is that June Carter oh mine

This brings nostalgia to when I played Slender The Arrival

I found this song by accident after 40 years of trying because my daddy Played it on the harmonica when I was a little girl. I was so happy to find it! Music speaks to the heart. Thank you for sharing.

who are the ladies left to right?

I don't like Country but this one is mesmerising

so this is the music kate the chaser listens to ???? *no regrets*

Probably one of the hardest songs to play on guitar...Ever!

I must admit, I hate country music, but this, this makes me feel a strange way, like it has some mysterious warm aura to it that pulls me in.

wonderful !!!!!!

u right bro

what year is this?

This is from the early 60s. I'm not sure the exact year, but I'd say anywhere from 1960-1963