Forgotten Flowers

I’ve got diamonds in my backyard

They grow just like weeds

You’ll come and gather them in bundles

Take all that you need

But save the flowers there for me, dear

Take the diamonds for your greed

‘Cause the flowers don’t grow like weeds

Glory glory, hallelujah

I’m lost and she’s found

Another lover to give her shelter

When the fields have turned brown

Another kind man to warm her

When the snow finds the ground

The only girl that made the world go round

There are some things worth remembering

And others left for time

To come and weather and to change

In the winds of your mind

But don’t forget me while you’re leaving

Just remember my rhyme

It’s all that I’ve borrowed from time

Now its Sunday, early evening

I rise for the day

Brush a long hair from the pillow

On my bed where she would lay

And in the backyard forgotten flowers

Are all fading away

To bloom in other lovers’ backyards someday