Wildwood Weed Lyrics - Singles - Jim Stafford

Wildwood flower grew wild on the farm 

And we never knowed what it was called 

Some said it was a flower and some said it was a weed 

I didn't give it much thought 

One day I was out there talkin' to my brother 

And I reached down for a weed to chew on 

Things got fuzzy and things got blurry 

And then ev'rything was gone 

Didn't know what happened but I knew it beat the hell 

Out of sniffing burlap 

I come to and my brother was there and he said, 

"What's wrong with your eyes?" 

I said "I don't know, I was chewin' on the weed" 

He said, "Let me give it a try" 

We spent the rest of that day and most of that night tryin' 

To find my brother Bill 

Caught up with him about six o'clock the next mornin' 

Naked, singing on the windmill 

He said he flew up there 

I had to fly up and get him down 

He was about half crazy 

The very next day we picked a bunch of them weeds 

And put 'em in the sun to dry 

Then we mashed 'em up and we cleaned 'em off 

Put 'em in the corn cob pot 

Smokin' them wildwood flowers got to be a habit 

We never seen no harm 

We thought it was kind-a handy 

Take a trip and never leave the farm 

Big 'ole puff of that wildwood weed next thing you know 

You're just wand'ring 'round behind the little animals 

All good things got to come to an end 

It's the same with the wildwood weeds 

One day this feller from Washington come by 

And spied one and turned white as a sheet 

And they dug and they burned 

And they burned and they dug and they killed 

All our cute little weeds and then they drove away 

We just smiled and waved sittin' ther on that sack o' seeds