Lyr Req: Flower from the Fields of Alabama (Blake)

Subject: Norman Blake
From: GUEST,Raymond
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 10:18 PM

I saw Norman Blake show this weeken and he sang several songs I would like the lyrics too. I would have bought his book at the show, they only had songs that he didn't sang and I didn't know. I'm looking for the lyrics to Flower from the fields of alabama.

regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Norman Blake
From: Frank Maher (extra)
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:00 PM

I have that as an MP3..I could send it to You if you want it!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Norman Blake
From: simon-pierre
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:00 PM

Hi Raymond, it's in the DT.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Norman Blake
From: GUEST,Raymond yes I would like the mp3
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:12 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Norman Blake
From: GUEST,MP3
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:13 PM

[e-mail] send it in the email I have broad band

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Norman Blake
From: Frank Maher (extra)
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 11:26 PM

Ok...You got It!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Norman Blake
From: masato sakurai
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 04:57 AM

The Traditional Ballad Index (Click here) says "AUTHOR: unknown. EARLIEST DATE: 1928 (recording, Burnett & Rutherford)"; this song seems to have been composed earlier. Burnett & Rutherford is reissued by Document (Click here). Norman Blake's sound clip is HERE.

~Masato

Subject: Lyr Add: FLOWER FROM THE FIELDS OF ALABAMA
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Oct 24 - 12:28 AM

From the sheet music at the University of Maine:


FLOWER FROM THE FIELDS OF ALABAMA
Words and music by Dan J. Sullivan, ©1900.

VERSE 1: One fine eve long, long ago,
As the sun was sinking low,
Down in Alabama 'neath a southern sky,
It was in the month of June
And the roses were in bloom.
On the roadside they would greet you passing by.
To her happy home I went
For the blessing and consent
Of the mother of the girl I longed to wed.
And as I drew near the place,
Tears ran down her dear old face.
When I asked her for her daughter's hand, she said:

CHORUS: She's a flower from the fields of Alabama.
Take her, for she loves you, lad, I know.
Health and luck where'er you go:
Here's the blessing I bestow.
She's a flower from the fields of Alabama.

VERSE 2: Sitting by my cottage door,
Thinking of the days of yore,
While my dear old wife was seated by my side,
And it seemed but yesterday
When a maiden young and gay
Promised me that she would be my bonny bride.
But a change has taken place:
There are wrinkles on her face,
And those pretty locks of brown have turned to grey.
In her eyes true love I see
And she's just as dear to me
As she was the day I heard her mother say: CHORUS