ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
As sung by Sally Rogers on "We'll Pass Them On" (1995)

One morning, one morning, one morning in May,
I overheard a married man to a young girl did say:
"Go dress you up, pretty Katy, and come along with me
Across the Blue Mountains to the Allegheny.

"I'll buy you a horse, love, and a saddle for to ride,
And I'll buy myself another to ride by your side.
We'll stop in every tavern; we'll drink when we are dry.
Across the Blue Mountains go my Katy and I."

Then up spoke her mother, and angry was she then:
"O daughter, my dear daughter, he is a married man.
Besides there are young men plenty, more handsome than he.
Let him take his own wife to the Allegheny."

"But mother, O mother, he's the man of my own heart,
And wouldn't it be a dreadful thing for me and my love to part?
I'd value every woman that ever I did see,
Who crossed the Blue Mountains to the Allegheny."

One morning, one morning, one morning in May
I overheard a married man to a young girl did say:
"Go dress you up, pretty Katy, and come along with me
Across the Blue Mountains to the Allegheny."



love, harpgirl