Wildwood Weed Songtext
von Jim Stafford

The name of this song is the Wildwood Flower
Now the Wildwood Flower is an old country classic
It′s gained a whole new popularity
The song isn't any more popular
But the flower′s doin' real good

The wildwood flower grew out on the farm
And we never knowed what it was called
Some said it was a flower and some said it was a weed
I didn't give it much thought
One day I was out there talkin′ to my brother
And I reached down for a weed to chew on
Things got fuzzy and things got blurry
And then everything was gone
Didn′t know what happened
But I knew it beat the hell out of sniffing burlap


I come to, and my brother was there and he said,
"What's wrong with your eyes?"
I said "I don′t know, I was chewin' on a weed"
He said, "Let me give it a try"
We spent the rest of that day and most of that night
Tryin′ to find my brother Bill
Caught up with him about six o'clock the next mornin′
Naked, singing on the windmill
He said he flew up there
I had to fly up and get him down
He was about half crazy

The very next day we picked a bunch of them weeds
And we put 'em in the sun to dry
Then we mashed 'em up and we cleaned ′em off
Put ′em in the corn cob pipe
Smokin' them wildwood flowers got to be a habit
We never seen no harm
We thought it was kinda handy
Take a trip and never leave the farm
Big ′ole puff of that wildwood weed
And the next thing you know
You're just wand′ring 'round behind the little animals


All good things got to come to an end
It′s the same with the wildwood weeds
One day this feller from Washington come by
And spied 'em and turned white as a sheet
And he dug and he burned
And he burned and he dug
And he killed all our cute little weeds
And then he drove away
We just smiled and waved
Sittin' there on that sack o′ seeds

"Y′all come back now, y'hear!"