An’ the leaves are crushed an’ crumpled up

With crinkled buds atween.

They’ve got a sorto’ musty smell

That almost makes me sick,

For they ’mind me o’ the days in June

We got ’m ’long the crick.

They wan’t no style about them tho’,

Like city flowers is—

They’s jist the good ol’-time Wil’-Rose

That God set out fer His.