The Legend of the Dogwood Tree

 

Stoney Cooper did not write any songs. Wilma Lee Leary Cooper, his wife, wrote or co-wrote the following songs:

• "Cheated Too"
• "Heartbreak Street"
• "He Taught Them How"
• "I Tell My Heart"
• "Loving You"
• "My Heart Keeps Crying"
• "Tomorrow I'll Be Gone"
• "Big Midnight Special" (co-writer)

Stoney Cooper was a fiddler who was born in Harmon in 1918. He and his wife, Wilma Lee Leary, were voted the most authentic mountain singing group in America in 1950 by Harvard University. They were regulars on the Grand Ole Opry.

Stoney Cooper also recorded several songs, but he did not write them. Some of the songs he recorded include:

• "West Virginia Polka"
• "Thirty Pieces of Silver"
• "The Golden Rocket"
• "The Legend of the Dogwood Tree"
• "Willie Roy, the Crippled Boy"
• "Just for a While"
• "How it Hurts to Be Alone"
• "Please Help Me If I Am Wrong"
• "Each Season Changes You"
• "I Want to Be Loved"
• "This Crazy Crazy World"
• "There's A Big Wheel"
• "Walking My Lord Up Calvary's Hill"
• "Come Walk with Me"
• "The Tramp on the Street"
• "The Canadian Reel"
• "Rachel's Guitar"