written by Dolly Parton   © 1986 Velvet Apple Music      The hills were alive with wildflowers and I   Was as wild, even wilder than they   For at least I could run   They just died in the sun   And I refused to just wither in place      Just a wild mountain rose   Needing freedom to grow   So I ran fearing not where I'd go   When a flower grows wild   It can always survive   Wildflowers don't care where they grow      And the flowers I knew   In the fields where I grew   Were content to be lost in the crowd   They were common and close   I had no room for growth   And I wanted so much to branch out      So I uprooted myself from home ground and left   Took my dreams and I took to the road   When a flower grows wild   It can always survive   Wildflowers don't care where they grow      I grew up fast and wild   And I never felt right   In a garden so different from me   I just never belonged   I just longed to be gone   So the garden one day set me free      I hitched a ride with the wind   And since he was my friend   I just let him decide where we'd go   When a flower grows wild   It can always survive   Wildflowers don't care where they grow      Just a wild rambling rose seeking mysteries untold   No regret for the path that I chose   When a flower grows wild   It can always survive   Wildflowers don't care where they grow