"Across the Blue Mountain to the Allegheny" was collected from Mary Bird McAllister in Brown's Cove, Virginia, by Paul Clayton. I recorded in on Folk-Legacy's 1966 recording ("Sandy and Caroline Paton" - EGO-30), Harry Tuft used it as the title song of his Folk-Legacy recording (now on compact disc, CD-63), Jennifer Armstrong has recorded it, and Robin and Linda Williams have also recorded it on one of their CDs.

When I was visiting with Vance Randolph and Mary Celestia Parler in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1962, Miss Parler asked me if I'd ever come across such a song, as she thought she had collected a unique piece of Americana. She was more than a little disappointed when I sang "Maybird's" song for her. Still, those two examples of the song are the only traditional sources of which I know.

And you're right, GUEST SingOut, it's an entirely different song. Good, though!

Sandy