She come down from oklahoma with her brown-eyed pride and joy She come down from oklahoma with her brown-eyed pride and joy The fair-haired desdemona and her ramblin guitar boy Well they kept to thorn-brake thickets 'cause her daddy was a log-chain man Yeah they kept to thorn-brake thickets 'cause her daddy was a log-chain man On a night as long and wicked as the scar on his tattooed hand Fly away, fly away little wildwood flower Lift your cares to the wind coyote and whine Your rolling tears, your restless visions Rattle up to love, the magician Well, he tracked 'em by the muddy waters, and he trailed 'em by the lonely lake Yeah he tracked 'em by the muddy waters, and he trailed 'em by the lonely lake But he only saw two young otters swimmin over by the farther bank Fly away, fly away ... They stole through the head-high blossoms when he set his hound dogs run Yeah they stole through the head-high blossoms when he set his hound dogs run And they dogs treed two white possoms at the risin of an angry sun Fly away, fly away ... When the old man come to find 'em there wasn't nothin for to meet the eye When the old man come to find 'em there wasn't nothin for to meet the eye Just a pair of lovebirds risin in the blue and boundless sky