When No Flowers Grow

[Intro] e|---------------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------| G|-------2---2-2-4--2---2-4-2-----2-4-2--------2-----| D|-0--4-----------------------2---------0---0-----0--| A|---------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------| [Chorus] I don’t know how long I stand at the window Watching crosswinds erase all her tracks in the snow In her mind it’s springtime she goes to pick some flowers In the cold dead of winter when no flowers grow [Verse 1] Many doctors have tried but tried in vain To make my darling well   They say it would take a miracle And only time will tell   [Verse 2] Her mind is in another world Her own little world So she picks flowers in the cold dead of winter At a time no flowers grow [Verse 3] There was a time when her mind was sound When she picked pretty flowers in the spring She and little Mike and I would take to the country When we heard the first Robin sing   [Verse 4] We loaded our car with daisies Blue bonnets buttercups and marigolds But life had a way of bringing the winter And a time when no flowers grow [Verse 5] Little Mike had been making a snowman And you know how little kids are They soon get tired of playin’ one game Well Mike had crawled under the car [Verse 6] As mama twirled the keys she threw me a kiss And said "Watch little Mike don’t let him get cold"   Well that was two years ago and it’s winter again And a time when no flowers grow     [Verse 7] I know there’s a star called little Mike Somewhere up there with the rest And maybe someday she’ll see it But then maybe for her this way is the best [Verse 8] I watched her arrange bare branches in a vase Her flowers she picked from the snow   And sometimes they look like flowers to me At a time when no flowers grow     [Chorus] I don’t know how long I stand at the window Watching crosswinds erase all her tracks in the snow In her mind it’s springtime she goes to pick some flowers In the cold dead of winter when no flowers grow [Outro] In the cold dead of winter when no flowers grow