Story Behind The Song

Inspired by several touched people I knew as a child in the Ozark Mountains.

Song Description

A young man going crazy after the death of his chidhood love and never getting over it.

Lyrics

?WILD RED FLOWERS?
Timothy Lee Horlacher
Copyright 1990


Just outside our town, an old man walks around
Gathering Wild Red Flowers, in a bag that he found
They say when he was young, he loved a pretty blue eyed girl
And just before the age of marriage, the young girl passed away

So he picks a bag, of Wild Red Flowers
And takes them where they laid to rest, the pretty blue eyed girl
And then he lays, upon her grave, the bag of Wild Red Flowers
And prays to God and weeps, for his pretty blue eyed girl

All the people say, he went crazy on that day
And never did get over, the loss of the blue eyed girl
Until the time they meet, some day up in heaven
He?ll walk the dusty road, to her gave upon the hill

And he?ll pick a bag, of Wild Red Flowers
Then take them where they laid to rest, the pretty blue eyed girl
And then he lays, upon her grave, the bag of Wild Red Flowers
And prays to God and weeps, for his pretty blue eyed girl

Yes, He?ll always decorate her grave, with pretty Wild Red Flowers
And pray that God will keep, alive her memory
?With Wild Red Flowers