Dear Greg Stephens, Yes, other versions of the 'Green Mountain' type of this song usually beging with 'On yonder high mountain there a castle doth stand' or the like. Regrettably, Helen Creighton did not ask Angelo Dornan about the meaning of the song, or at least if she did she did not include the information in _Maritime Folk Songs_. I'll chase around after 'Lunar Mountain' a bit longer, but I don't expect to be able to establish beyond doubt what is going on in this stanza, just to offer a reasonable hypothesis. Stephen
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