“Blue Mountain”
Author: F. W. Keller
Earliest date: 1947 (Collected by Fife/Fife)
Found in: US
Description
"My home it was in Texas, My past you must not know.... Blue Mountain, you're azure deep... Blue Mountain with a horsehead on your side, You've won my love to keep." Moments in the life of a cowboy: Drinking, wandering, wishing for mother
Recordings
- Art Thieme, "Blue Mountain" (on Thieme01)
References
- Fife-Cowboy/West 88, "Blue Mountain" (1 text, 1 tune)
- DT, BLUMTNAZ*
- Roud #10861
- BI, FCW088
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