Song #37

Wildflowers by Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt

It's spring time, sun is shinning and we can feel the promise of summer days in the wind. V, you are 5 and the twins are 3. I want you to grow up to be wildflowers, poppies and daisies, easy-going and happy, not caring where you are growing as long as you are together and thriving.

Wild flowers don't care where they grow.

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
And I wanted so much to branch out

So 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

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

Just a wild rambling rose seeking misteries untold
No regret for the path that I chose
When a flower grows wild, it can always survive
Wildflowers don't care where they grow

Wildflowers don't care where they grow