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Wildwood Flower

Words and Music by the Carter Family - 1928

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C          F	C	G7	C
-	C          F	C	G7
C	-	-	C
F	C	-	-
G7	C	-          (repeat)	|

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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I will twine with your tresses of raven black hair,

With the roses so red and the lilies so fair,

With the myrtle as bright as the emerald dew,

The pale and the lyder and eyes of light blue.

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Listen to Bob Johnson on 5-string banjo play "Wildwood Flower" with Bill McElhiney's Orchestra (mp3)

 

Watch Buck Trent play "Wildwood Flower" on his electric 5-string banjo (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

Click here for 5-String Banjo Melody Tab in key of G

Capo at the 5th fret to play-along with the above key of C arrangement.

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com