Album: Wildwood Flower (1928)

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• 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 and the leader and eyes look like blue
  
  I will dance, I will sing and my laugh shall be gay
  I will charm every heart, in his crown I will sway
  When I awoke from my dreaming my idol was clay
  All portion of love had all flown away
  
  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 with no warning, no word of farewell
  
  Oh, he taught me to love him and called me his flower
  That was blooming to cheer him through life's dreary hour
  Oh, I long to see him and regret the dark hour
  He's one that neglected this pale wildwood flower Writer/s: Alvin Pleasant Carter
  Publisher: Peermusic Publishing
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

• Alcovegodinan4312 from New YorkPale amanita and islip so blue
• Jack from Moultonwhat does the "pale and the leaders and eyes look like blue" mean?
• Ronne Davis from FloridaThe Carters sing "I will twine with my mingles", etc. I can find nowhere that the word "mingles" is a noun. The traditional lyrics make more sense.
• Will Lamey from Live Oak FlPossibly my favorite tune when sung by mother maybele carter. Heart wrenching
• Candi from Donna, TxI'll Twine mid the ringlets of my raven black hair. (remember the song is about flowers, she twines the flowers in her raven black hair)
  THE MYRTLE SO BRIGHT WITH AN EMERALD HUE (Crape Myrtles are usually pink but there are also white and Lilac ones that grow to be trees)
  it is indeed a great song when the words are correct. Suzy Bogguss does a really nice redition of this song. Here's the song Suzy sings...
  
  Wildwood Flower
  I'LL TWINE 'MID THE RINGLETS
  (Maud Irving and J.P. Webster)
  
  I will twine mid my ringlets of raven black hair
  the lilies so pale and the roses so fair
  and the myrtle so bright with an emerald hue
  the pale amaryillis and violets so blue
  i will dance i will sing and my laugh will be gay
  I'll cease this wild weeping drive sorrow away
  tho my heart is now breaking, he'll never know
  his name made me tremble, my pale cheeks to glow
  
  he told me he loved me and promised to love
  through ill and misfortunes all others above
  now another has won him, oh misery to tell
  he left me in silence no word of farewell
  he taught me to love him, he called me his flower
  that blossomed for him all the brighter each hour
  but i awoke from my dreaming, my idol was clay
  my visions of love have all faded away
  
  I'll think of him never, I'll be wildly gay
  I'll charm every heart and the crowd i will sway
  I'll live yet to see him regret the dark hour
  he won and neglected the frail wildwood flower
  
• Jo from Memphis, Tn, TnA myrtle is a kind of tree that flowers in September. It grows in the southern US.
• Alan from Sault Ste. Marie, OnI read the lyrics to the song and I'm puzzled by the word mirtle. Can't find the word in any dictionary. Thought it might be some type of flower "and the mirtles so bright with the emerald dew". And the opening lyrics "I'll twine with my mingles" is a phrase I'm not familiar with. Beautiful song however.

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