Wild Mountain Flowers For Mary

Lost and Found

Written by Allen Mills

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C                               G7
We grew up living close to each other
                                  C
Went to school and played side by side
                                 F
And I longed for the day I would ask her
   C         G7    C
If she would be my bride

Verse 2

                                        G7
I picked some wild mountain flowers for Mary
                         C
And told her I loved her today
                            F
But she said we never could marry
         C            G7           C
That her mother would stand in the way

Verse 3

                                 G7
Her daddy died when she was very young
                               C
And she never knew love from a man
                                    F
And I tried hard to show her that I love her
    C                 G7          C
And tried to make her mother understand

Verse 2

                                        G7
I picked some wild mountain flowers for Mary
                         C
And told her I loved her today
                            F
But she said we never could marry
         C            G7           C
That her mother would stand in the way

Verse 4

                                       G7
Now my days of youth are gone and I am happy
                           C
And my time's not very far away
                                        F
I picked some wild mountain flowers for Mary
    C              G7        C
And placed them on her grave today

Verse 2

                                        G7
I picked some wild mountain flowers for Mary
                         C
And told her I loved her today
                            F
But she said we never could marry
         C            G7           C
That her mother would stand in the way

Verse 5

                        F
She said we never could marry
         C            G7           C
That her mother would stand in the way