When No Flowers Grow-Merle Haggard

[ti:When No Flowers Grow] [ar:Merle Haggard] [al:High on a Hilltop, Vol. 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.29]When No Flowers Grow - Merle Haggard (梅尔·哈格德) [00:01.53]Written by：Tommy Collins [00:02.47] [00:08.70]I don't know how long I stand at the window [00:15.67]Watching crosswinds erase [00:18.49]All her tracks in the snow [00:21.89]In her mind it's springtime [00:25.53]She goes to pick some flowers [00:28.65]In the cold dead winter [00:31.39] [00:32.27]When no flowers grow [00:35.14] [00:37.38]Many doctors have tried [00:39.15]But tried in vain to make my darling well [00:43.03] [00:44.75]They say it would take a miracle [00:45.99] [00:47.27]And only time will tell [00:48.52] [00:50.46]Her mind is in another world [00:51.86] [00:53.23]Her own little world [00:54.43] [00:56.39]So she picks flowers [00:57.69]In the cold dead of winter [00:59.15] [01:00.46]At a time no flowers grow [01:02.70] [01:05.25]There was a time when her mind was sound [01:07.37] [01:08.65]When she picked pretty flowers in the spring [01:10.75] [01:12.14]She and little mac [01:12.96]And I would take to the country [01:14.51] [01:15.85]When we heard the first robin sing [01:17.30] [01:19.38]We loaded our car with daisies [01:21.57]Blue buns buttercups and marigolds [01:24.20] [01:25.43]But life had a way of bringing the winter [01:27.58] [01:28.58]And a time when no flowers grow [01:31.01] [01:33.63]Little mac had been making a snowman [01:35.35] [01:36.99]And you know how little kids are [01:38.89] [01:40.62]They soon get tired of playing one game [01:42.74] [01:44.30]Well mac had crawled under the car [01:46.44] [01:48.62]His mama twirled the keys [01:50.25]She threw me a kiss [01:51.38] [01:51.97]And said watch little mac [01:53.98] [01:56.26]Don't let him get cold [01:57.20] [02:00.92]Well that was two years ago [02:02.44] [02:04.46]And it's winter again [02:05.30] [02:08.37]And a time when no flowers grow [02:11.35] [02:14.76]I know there's a star called little mac [02:17.38]Somewhere up there with the rest [02:19.06] [02:21.10]Maybe someday she'll see it [02:22.53] [02:24.84]But then maybe for her [02:26.68]This way is the best [02:27.75] [02:29.65]I watched her arrange bare branches in a vase [02:32.69] [02:34.36]Her flowers she picked from the snow [02:37.38] [02:39.86]And sometimes they look like flowers to me [02:42.27] [02:45.99]At a time when no flowers grow [02:49.10] [02:56.59]I don't know how long I stand at the window [03:03.54]Watching crosswinds erase [03:06.53]All her tracks in the snow [03:09.21] [03:09.76]In her mind it's springtime [03:13.39]And she goes to pick some flowers [03:16.47]In the cold dead of winter [03:18.98] [03:19.90]When no flowers grow [03:23.33] [03:24.57]In the cold dead of winter [03:27.52] [03:28.10]When no flowers grow