BLACKBERRY BLOSSOM
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Can you tell me what
happened to the blossom,
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The blackberry blossom
when summertime came ?
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The blackberry blossom,
oh, the last time I saw one
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Was down in the bramble
where I rambled in the spring.
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The bramble was wild, I
was torn by the briars,
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And my lover, he wooed me
as I lied there
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With a flower in my hair
and my cheeks all flushed,
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It was a blackberry
blossom from a blackberry bush.
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When I picked the berry I
didn't miss the blossom,
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The blackberry blossom was
white as the snow.
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The berry that it brings
is sweeter than molasses,
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And black as the wings of
an Arkansas crow.
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The Arkansas crow is a
devil and a demon,
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Known for his cackling and
his screaming,
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Driving away the swallow
and the thrush
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From the blackberry
blossom and the blackberry bush.
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I was picking berries when
that crow flew above me
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Carrying my lover so far
away.
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Now each spring I lay a
blackberry blossom
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By a cold grave stone on
the Arkansas clay.
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The Arkansas clay is rocky
and hard
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With weeds grown over in
the old grave yard.
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As the day settles down to
an evening hush
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Over the blackberry
blossom and the blackberry bush.
Recorded
by: Michelle Shocked
"Arkansas Traveler"