Wildflowers Lyrics - Linda Ronstadt

written by Dolly Parton 

© 1986 Velvet Apple Music 

The hills were alive with wildflowers and I 

Was as wild, even wilder than they 

For at least I could run 

They just died in the sun 

And I refused to just wither in place 

Just a wild mountain rose 

Needing freedom to grow 

So I ran fearing not where I'd go 

When a flower grows wild 

It can always survive 

Wildflowers don't care where they grow 

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And the flowers I knew 

In the fields where I grew 

Were content to be lost in the crowd 

They were common and close 

I had no room for growth 

And I wanted so much to branch out 

So I uprooted myself from home ground and left 

Took my dreams and I took to the road 

When a flower grows wild 

It can always survive 

Wildflowers don't care where they grow 

I grew up fast and wild 

And I never felt right 

In a garden so different from me 

I just never belonged 

I just longed to be gone 

So the garden one day set me free 

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I hitched a ride with the wind 

And since he was my friend 

I just let him decide where we'd go 

When a flower grows wild 

It can always survive 

Wildflowers don't care where they grow 

Just a wild rambling rose seeking mysteries untold 

No regret for the path that I chose 

When a flower grows wild 

It can always survive 

Wildflowers don't care where they grow