Wildflowers

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris




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The hills were alive with wildflowers and I

Was as wild, even wilder than they

For at least I could run, they just died in the sun

And I refused to just wither in place


Just a wild mountain rose, needing freedom to grow

So I ran fearing not where I'd go

When a flower grows wild, it can always survive

Wildflowers don't care where they grow


And the flowers I knew in the fields where I grew

Were content to be lost in the crowd

They were common and close, I had no room for growth

I wanted so much to branch out


I uprooted myself from my home ground and left

Took my dreams and I took to the road

When a flower grows wild, it can always survive

Wildflowers don't care where they grow


I grew up fast and wild and I never felt right

In a garden so different from me

I just never belonged, I just longed to be gone

So the garden one day set me free


So I hitched a ride with the wind and since he was my friend

I just let him decide where we'd go

When a flower grows wild, it can always survive

Wildflowers don't care where they grow


Love,

Dolly