West Virginia Wildflower

Verse 1: 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



Verse 2: He was driven by the dollar
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



Chorus1: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's not a home to a West Virginia Wildflower
It's not a home to a West Virginia Wildflower



Verse 3: 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



Verse 4: 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



Chorus2: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



Verse 5: Now, he's just a small-town lawyer
Lookin' more like Tom Sawyer than Wall Street
Catching fireflies with their daughter
As she runs through the West Virginia Wildflowers with no shoes on her feet