crooked still
undone in sorrow
Over yonder in the graveyard Where the wild, wild flowers grow There they laid my own true lover She'd gone from me, forever more Fairer than the sweetest flower Restless as the wildest way Pored in with love deep as a ocean This is the girl that I did win I left her there back in the mountain To see the world riches to gain Oh, when I returned no earthy treasure Could ease this heart so filled with pain They saw high above the mountain Beneath that little mound of clay The girl that I returned to marry So stand a mound of flowers did lay