Chords for Wilma Lee Cooper ~ Gathering Flowers from the Hillside (1995)

Numbered five to one.
How about Wilma Lee Cooper?
Who did Wilma Lee Cooper?
I'll tell you I'm the oldest one in this group here
So I didn't have a lot of ladies ahead of me to I had the carter family Sarah and mother Maybel and
_ After before that there wasn't many ladies in country music
So, um, I always liked mother Maybel and I liked her guitar picking but I liked her singing
So she was my the one that I would say I tried to be like, okay
And you started with your family too.
Yes, I did family now
Did the leary family try to copy the carter family?
No, they didn't my family were gospel singers mother and dad
And we sang like the old-time chuck wagon gang, you know their sound.
Okay.
That was my family's sound mother sang
Way high and then there was jerry and peggy and I and dad
They had sung the bass mama sang tenor and dad
_ Considered the he and dr.
Hall were considered the two finest bass singers in the state of west virginia
They both could hit low c
A lot of interesting things here tonight
We're visiting with the grand ladies of the grand ole opry connie smith wilma lee cooper gene shepherd genie sealy and jan howard
They're going to be with us for the entire half hour
We'll be back to visit with them more when opry backstage continues after this stay with us
Please miss wilma lee cooper _ _
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Thank you very much
Thank you.
You're so kind carol's gonna hold the the microphone here for me to pick in [C] like she did when she was a little girl
[Fm] It's not been too long ago
_ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I've _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ been gathering flowers from the hillside _ _ _
[G] But _ _ [C] you can't be awaiting so long dear
_ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ I've _ _ seen troubles but never hang down [G] your head
_ [C] Your love for me is like a flower
Your love [G] for me [C] is dead
I've been gathering flowers from the hillside
To wrinkle around [G] your back, _ but [C] you can't be awaiting so long _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Tonight
It [G] was _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ on one bright june morning
_ The roses were [G] in bloom
_ [C] I shot and killed my darling
_ Now what [G] will be [C] my due?
_ I've been gathering flowers from the hillside
to wrinkle around
[G] _ _ _ [C] But you can't be awaiting so long dear the flowers that [G] fall [C] with her _ now _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Hold _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ these _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
roses
_ Cold eyes cannot see [G] them, you know
_ [C] And these lips that are still cannot kiss me
_ They're gone [G] from me forever [C] more
I've been gathering flowers from the _ hillside
To wrinkle around [G] your bride, _ [C] but you can't be awaiting so long dear
_ _ [G] Miss [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Wimberly _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ cooper _
_ That was a recorded by the carter family wasn't it?
And so Wimberly chose that to do it
My _ favorite.
Yes, she was great and we love her _ right now