West Virginia Wildflower - Original by Stacy Grubb

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West Virginia Wildflower

The first time that he saw her




She was fetching water from the creek
He was a New York lawyer




She was a West Virginia wildflower with no shoes on her feet

He was driven by the doller
She'd been livin' in a holler all her life
It was fate that made him break down
In that Appalachian coal town the day he met his wife

CHORUS:

And he took her to his home in New York City
Where the pines ain't as tall as the concrete towers
And while a nighttime skyline sure is pretty
It ain't a home to a West Virginia Wildflower
It ain't a home to a West Virginia Wildflower

He tried to make her happy
He did everything that he knew to do
But she missed her mom and daddy
And she cried every night 'cause the mountain life was the only one she knew

So she told him that she loved him
But knew he was wanting something she couldn't be
He lived a life she didn't fit in
And he wanted a rose but a mountain wildflower was all she'd ever be

CHORUS 2:
And it rained on the day she left New York City
Leaving him took everything in her power
She said, "You'll never have the life that you want with me.
I'll always be a West Virginia Wildflower
Never more than a West Virginia Wildflower."

BRIDGE:

And she hadn't been gone for very long
When he finally saw where he'd been wrong
He tried to give her everything that his money could buy
Then he realized, she was born free and wild

Now, he's just a small-town lawyer
Lookin' more like Tom Sawyer than Wall Street
They're catching fireflies with their daughter
As she runs through the West Virginia Wildflowers with no shoes on her feet

DOC 2005 by Stacy M. Grubb

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Original
• singer/songwriter
• West
• Virginia
• Wildflower
• folk
• bluegrass
• Americana
• Appalachia
• roots

[CapoCunningham]

Amazing voice. Vibrant, strong, and straight writing. Absolutely mesmerizing overall effect. If West Virginia is full of such wildflowers, I'm relocating...

[stacywv]

Thank you so much for listening :).

[lps45s8tracks]

Move over Alison Kraus.Love it.~(;Larry;)

[stacywv]

Thanks, Larry :)!

[lpc75]

Great!

[stacywv]

Thanks!

[79barkingspider]

Beautiful song and a crystal clear warm voice to deliver it.

[50bi0tch]

this is amazing i love it ... you really have alot of talent

[gthompson1000]

Amazing voice Stacy, thanks for the sharing with us.  How I miss being home in WV!

[katalystsoljah]

Hard this song for the first time on Ocracoke Nc radio station WOVV. Loved it. Being a West Virginian in a state of Diasporia I really enjoyed it.

[00murky]

AMAZIN!

[SurprizedDaily]

@pappynine - howdy pappy, I totally agree with you there on Stacy being ready to fill sum shoes! She's awesome! Totally amazing talent!

[SurprizedDaily]

totally amazing song you wrote here. Fantastic, I love this one too!

[MrClyde26]

@stacywv you have a awsome voice and great song writeing skills ive been playing guitar 4 3 mths now and i dont sound near as well as you your great end of story keep it up we will all see you in nashville

[nightstorm69]

If i could give this song a better honor than favoriting it, I would. Amazing, touching, insightful...