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23 Feb 13 - 07:53 AM (#3482822) Subject: Origins: You'll do better up in the mountains From: AllisonA(Animaterra) During our stay here in the beautiful southern Appalachians, a song from my childhood keeps ringing through my head. When I lived in Colorado, my mother would sing this every time we drove to the Rockies: You'll do better up in the mountains, You'll do better up in the mountains, You'll do better up in the mountains, As we have done before! The tune was very close to the children's game, "Go in and out the window", though not identical. It seems to me there was a second verse. My Google-fu is failing me here. Does anyone know the origins of this song??? |
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23 Feb 13 - 04:45 PM (#3483012) Subject: RE: Origins: You'll do better up in the mountains From: GUEST,999 I'm getting nowhere with Mr Google either. |
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23 Feb 13 - 06:40 PM (#3483057) Subject: RE: Origins: You'll do better up in the mountains From: MartinRyan I see several references to a song called "I do better up in the mountains"? Any chance? Regards |
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23 Feb 13 - 06:45 PM (#3483061) Subject: RE: Origins: You'll do better up in the mountains From: GUEST,999 I Do Better Up In The Mountains Stept, Sam H. Broadway Music Corp. 1950 Good find, Martin. |
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24 Feb 13 - 08:03 AM (#3483203) Subject: RE: Origins: You'll do better up in the mountains From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Wow- that might be it! On my ipad I can't access some of the sites I found searching for "I Do Better Up In The Mountains Stept, Sam H. Broadway Music Corp. 1950" so when I leave the mountains (southern Appalachians) next week and return home next week I will check it out. |
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15 Mar 13 - 07:22 PM (#3490894) Subject: RE: Origins: You'll do better up in the mountains From: Jim Dixon The British Library has the sheet music, and gives a longer title: I DO BETTER UP IN THE MOUNTAINS (THAN I DO DOWN BY THE SEA) by Sam H Stept, 1950. |