Foggy mountain top       (Listen to sample)

 

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1. If I was on some foggy mountain top,

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    I'd sail away to the West.

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    I'd sail all around this whole wide world,

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    to the girl I love the best.

 

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2. If I had listened to what mama said,

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    I would not a been here today,

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    a-lying around this old jailhouse,

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    a-weepin’ my sweet life away.

 

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(yodeling) Eolayee-oh, leeolayee-ay leeolayee-layee-o-ay.

 

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3. Oh, when you see that girl of mine,

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    there's something you must tell her :

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    she need not to fool her time away,

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    to court some other feller.

 

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4. She caused me to weep, she caused me to mourn,

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    she caused me to leave my home.

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    Oh, the lonesome pines and those good old times,

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    I'm on my way back home.

 

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(yodeling) Eolayee-oh, leeolayee-ay leeolayee-layee-o-ay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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5. Oh, when you go a-courtin,

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    I tell you how to do,

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    pull off that long tail roustabout,

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    put on your navy blue.

 

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(yodeling) Eolayee-oh, leeolayee-ay leeolayee-layee-o-ay.

 

    (The Carter Family)