Chords for Suzy Bogguss, Wildwood Flower

[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I'm going to do a little bit with the wild parrot to bring back the old folk songs.
[G] _
_ _ [E] _ I'm going to do a little [C] bit with Harrison Keeler.
We would do a sing-along time at the intermission every time.
It was so fun because he'd get up there and sing all these old hymns [G] or Everly Brothers
or whatever, but every time he would pick [C] out Red River Valley or some old folk song,
[Cm] everybody who was under 30 just stood there and went_
[Gm] _ _ _ And so it just [G] kind of dawned on me.
I have a 17-year-old and I'm like, gosh, [Cm] I don't think he knows these songs.
He [G] did like four out of 17 [D] that I decided to pick for this project.
And then I ended up deciding [Cm] to do an accompanying [C] songbook to go with it with the music and stuff
so everybody [Ab] could dig their guitar out from under their bed or [C] go out and buy the latest
ukulele, which [Eb] seems to be very popular these days.
[C] _ _ I'm [Ab] going to get one because it only has [Cm] four strings.
_ _ _ [Eb] Exactly. _ _ _
So [D] _ anyway, I got into research of some of these songs and the first thing I found out
that some of [C] my American folk songs were not [D] really_
They were started before [B] America.
[D] So also a little disclaimer.
I had to [Gm] like, get rid of it. _
This next song is something that [G] I always knew from the Carter family.
They had a big hit with it in [D] 1958 _ and come to find out that it was [Bb] written
almost 100 years before that, in 1860.
You [G] know how songs will sort of _
[D] transfer as they go from holler to holler,
they get a little bit different [Am] story to them.
And the Carter family song is a very tragic tale of a girl who loses her _ lover.
He's pretty much trained her.
_ _ If you know what I mean, I'm just saying.
_ _ And so [E] he moves on to [G] another woman and she's broken hearted.
And in the Carter family's version, she's just devastated and she feels like
she'll never get [D] over this.
This is a thing that's happened to her and it's just, you know, for [B] the rest of her life
she's always [G] going to regret this.
_ [Eb] Well, come to [G] find out the original verse, the first [D] poem in 1860,
a lady named Maud Irving wrote a tiny bit different story.
It's [G] true, she was twining her hair with flowers and she [D] was getting ready to go to a party
and she had [Em] been jilted by her lover, but she was [A] over it.
And her little deal was, I'm going to this party and I'm going to charm every person in the room.
I am going to be the belle of the [G] ball and this guy is going to regret that he let go of me.
So _ I like a reversal of it. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Keep up. _ _ _ _ _
I _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ was twined with my ringlets of grey and black, _ _ the lilies so [D] pale and the roses [G] so fair.
_ And the murderous eyes [C] that never [G] ruled you, the pale amber lust and violet so blue.
I will dance, I will sing [D] and my [G] life will be gay. _ _
I'll cease this wild, creeping, [D] dry [G] sorrowful day.
Though my heart _ [C] aching, [G] it'll never know.
If names make me tremble, [D] my [G] pale cheeks could go. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
He told me he loved me and promised to love.
_ _ Through in and out, no others were found.
But I'm not a swan in the misery to tell.
He left me in silence, no word I fill with. _
He told me he loved me [D] and called [G] me his flower.
And I'd long to put him on a bridal shower.
_ But I woke from a dream [Em] and my eye [G] was clear.
My visions of love have [D] all faded [G] away. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ Okay, here's my favorite verse. _ _ _
I'll think of him never, I'll be the wild and gay.
_ I'll charm every [D] heart and the crowd [G] I will sway.
_ And on India to see him regret the dark hour.
The one man neglected, the cradle I will plow.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _