Faded Flower - The Carter Family

The flowers I saw in the wild-wood

Have since dropped their beautiful leaves

And the many dear friends of my childhood

Have slumbered for years in their graves

But the bloom of the flowers I remember

Though their smiles I may nevermore see

For the cold, chilly winds of December

Stole my flowers' companions from me

It is no wonder that I’m broken-hearted

And stricken with sorrows should be

For we have met, we have loved, we have parted

My flowers' companions and me

How dark looks this world and how dreary

When we part from the ones that we love

There is rest for the faint and the weary

And friends meet with loved ones above

For in heaven I can but remember

When from earth my soul shall be freed

That no cold, chilly winds of December

Shall steal my companions from me