She come down from Oklahoma
With her brown-eyed pride and joy
She come down from Oklahoma
With her brown eyed pride and joy
The fair-haired Desdemona
And her rambling guitar boy
Well they kept to the thorn-brake thickets
'Cause her daddy was a log-chain man
Yeah they kept to the thorn-brake thickets
'Cause her daddy was a log-chain man
On a night as long and wicked
As the scar on his tattooed hand
Fly away, fly away, little wildwood flower
Lift your cares to the wind, coyote, and whine
Your rolling tears, your restless visions
Rattle up to love, the magician
Well he tracked 'em by the muddy waters
And he trailed 'em by the lonely lake
Yeah, he tracked 'em by the muddy waters
And he trailed 'em by the lonely lake
But he only saw two black otters
Swimming over by the farther bank
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They stole through the head-high blossoms
When he set his hound dogs run
Yeah, they stole through the head-high blossoms
When he set his hound dogs run
And the dogs treed two white possums
At the rising of an angry sun
Fly away, fly away, little wildwood flower
Lift your cares to the wind, coyote, and whine
Your rolling tears, your restless visions
Rattle up to love, the magician
When her daddy rode in to find 'em
There wasn't nothing for to meet the eye
When the old man come to find 'em
There wasn't nothing for to meet the eye
Just a pair of lovebirds, rising
In the blue and boundless sky