With Larry Sanders and borderline at Musicman Studios in Springfield KY
Story behind the song
The eighth song is about the greatest woman in the world. Everything on this song is fur real and fur ture.
She could play anything she wanted on the guitar but only in the key of “C”. Dad told me that if I learned how to play Wildwood Flower that he would buy me a guitar. (Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim).
After a lot of work and patience on my Mothers’ part I learned a very clumsy version of what Mom could do and Dad brought a guitar to me on an L&N coal train caboose as he came home from Northern Kentucky.
Lyrics
Mom played everything in "C"
What she knew she'd play for me,
After supper dishes done,
She'd teach guitar to me for fun.
Mom would play the Wildwood Flower,
She taught me how, it took her hours.
Put you fingers here, she'd always say,
In Mama's patient,loving way.
Though her hands were cracked and sore,
From doing daily Mama chores,
She liked to play old Jimmy Brown,
She'd play it as the sun went down.
At night I'd sleep between clean sheets,
Hung in the breeze by hands that bleed,
Every night I'd lay me down,
Soft feather bed, a goose's down.
BRIDGE
Though you thought I'd never know,
how hard you worked, I love you so,
I knew it when I still lived there,
I'd go to sleep without a care.
How hard you worked I finally know,
your youngest son still loves you so.