carlene carter
me and the wildwood rose
In my Grandma's house her children would sing  Guitars a twangin' and their laughter would ring  I was little but I was the biggest kid  I wanted to do what the grown-ups did   In a big shiny car we'd head down the road  To sing for the miners who brought out the coal  Many a time I slept on the floorboard cold  On a quilt with my little sister  The Wildwood Rose   [Chorus:] And if I could change a thing in this world  I'd go back to the days  When Grandma and her girls  Were singing sweet and low  For me and the Wildwood Rose   We'd be way down the road by the break of dawn  Biscuits and gravy and a truck stop song  In a world all my own I saw what I saw  And in the rear view mirror I'd get a wink from my Grandma   [Chorus]  A lee a o a lee a o o lay dee who  A lee o lay dee   Oh I'll always remember the day that she died  My daddy he called me and he started to cry  I rode on an airplane with all of my pain  My tears would not stop  We stood in a circle and sang   [Chorus]  For me and the Wildwood Rose  For me and the Wildwood Rose  For me and the Wildwood Rose  A lee a o  A lee a o lay dee who