Pick The Wildwood Flower Acoustic chords by Gene Watson

Tuning: EADGBE

Verse 1:
G
Them Texas fields were hot
                                      C
And that tractor never was my kind of livin'
    A7
And when I hit sixteen, I had the size
                      D
And I hit the road to freedom
        Dm                            G7
And I'm glad I wasn't there to see my mama
                               C
'Cause she must have cried for hours
        G
I still hear her sayin', Gary
         D                            G
Get your guitar and pick the wildwood flower

Verse 2:
G
Now Dallas it was big,
                                 C
And hard to find a job, and so I didn't
       A7
It was easier to hitch a ride to Houston
                     D
And it was more like livin'
          Dm
Now, I've been down every road
         G7                                   C
And I've stood on every porch where they were givin'
            G
And if they had an hour,
     D                               G
Or a dime, I would pick the wildwood flower

Verse 3:
G
It's hard to turn around,
                                         C
And look back down the roads that I have travelled
       A7
'Cause like a never-ending ball of twine
                      D
My dreams have come unravelled
           Dm
And now as evening lays it's shawl,
           G7                           C
Across the shoulders of my life, I have found
           G
I couldn't tie my life together
            D                               G
With guitar strings and a poet's heart felt line
        Dm                            G7
And I'm glad I wasn't there to see my mama
                               C
'Cause she must have cried for hours
        G
I still hear her sayin', Gary
         D                            G