“My Home Is on the Mountain”
Description
The singer expresses a hope and a prayer to be reunited with mother: "I want to see my mother, O can't you call her here? / It wouldn't seem so hard to die to have my mother near...."
Supplemental text
My Home Is on the Mountain
Partial text(s)
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From Norman Cazden, Herbert Haufrecht, Norman Studer, Folk Songs
of the Catskills, #78, p. 300. From the singing of George Edwards.
I want to see my mother, Oh, can't you call her here?
It wouldn't seem so hard to die to have my mother near.
My home is on the mountain, Oh, where the pine trees wave,
It's there I heard the bugle a-calling for the brave.
(4 additional stanzas)
Notes
Cazden et al know of no other collections of this lyric, although the melody is similar to the familiar hymn tunes "Imandra" and "Milton."
They file the piece among "religious songs," but it feels a bit like a Civil War "dying soldier boy" song. - RBW
References
- FSCatskills 78, "My Home Is on the Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
- ST FSC078 (Partial)
- BI, FSC078