[Fiji Hill]

Wildwood Flower--The Carter Family (1929)

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 its emerald hue,
The pale and the leader and eyes look like blue.

Note how these Stalinist comrades ripped off the melody:

The Sinking of the Rueben James--The Almanac Singers (1942)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Love The Carter Family!!