Wildwood Floweri will twine with your mingles of raven black hair with the roses so red and the lilies so fair with myrtle as bright as the emerald dew the pale and the lyd-er and eyes of light blue oh he promised to love me; he promised to love and to cherish me always all others above. i woke from my dream and my idol was clay my passion for loving had vanished away. oh he taught me to love him; he called me his flower a blossom to cheer him through life's weary hour but now he is gone and left me alone the wild flowers to weep and the wild birds to mourn. i will dance and i'll sing and my life shall be gay i will charm every heart and each crown I shall sway though my heart now is breaking he never shall know how his name makes me tremble, my pale cheeks to glow. i will dance and i'll sing and my heart will be gay i'll banish this weeping, drive troubles away. i'll live yet to see him regret this dark hour when we won and neglected this frail wildwood flower. 10 000 Maniacs Index Hello in There( by John Prine ) We had an apartment in the city Me and Loretta liked living there And it'd been years since the kids had grown A life of their own, left us alone (same as above) John and Linda live in Omaha And Joe is somewhere on the road And we lost Davy in the Korean War And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore You know that old trees just grow stronger And old rivers get wilder every day Old people just get lonesome Waiting for someone to say "Hello in there, Hello. SAME AS ABOVE Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more She sits and stares through the back door screen And all the news just repeats itself Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen Some day I'll go and call up Rudy We worked together at the factory But what'll I say when he asks, "What's new?" "Nothin'. What's with you?" Nothin' much to do. You know that old trees just grow stronger And old rivers get wilder every day Old people just get lonesome Waiting for someone to say "Hello in there, Hello. So if you're walkin' down the street some day And spot some hollow, ancient eyes Please don't just pass 'em by and stare As if you didn't care, say "Hello in there, Hello. 10 000 Maniacs Index |
