“Foggy Mountain Top”
Description
Floating fragments: "If I was on some foggy mountain top/I'd sail away to the west...." "If I'd listened to what my mama said/I would not have been here today/Lying around this old jail cell/Just a-weeping my poor life away"
Notes
Some versions of this never-entirely-coherent song seem to have mixed with "The False Young Man, (The Rose in the Garden, As I Walked Out)" to yield mixed forms such as "White Oak Mountain." It can be hard to tell, with shorter versions, which is which. - RBW
Recordings
- Carter Family, "The Foggy Mountain Top" (Victor V-40058, 1929)
- Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle, "Foggy Mountain Top" (Columbia 20920, 1952)
- Monroe Bros., "On Some Foggy Mountain Top" (Montgomery Ward M-4749/Bluebird B-6607, 1936)
- New Lost City Ramblers, "On Some Foggy Mountain Top" (on NLCREP1, NLCRCD1) (NLCR16)
- Ola Belle & Bud Reed, "Foggy Mountain Top" (on Reeds01)
References
- [Randolph 799, "If I Was On Some Foggy Mountain Top" -- deleted in the second printing]
- BrownIII 365, "The Foggy Mountain Top" (1 text)
- SharpAp 112, "The Rocky Mountain Top" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
- Cohen/Seeger/Wood, pp. 42-43, "Foggy Mountain Top" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Silber-FSWB, p. 66, "Foggy Mountain Top" (1 text)
- DT, FGGYMTTP
- Roud #11735
- BI, CSW042