Lyr Req: Top of a Mountain (Len Graham sings it)

Subject: Lyr Add: TOP OF A MOUNTIAN
From: GUEST,JIM McAULEY
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 07:26 PM

Any-one got also- the song lyrics that len graham
sings.

Thanks very much
jim mcauley

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: TOP OF A MOUNTIAN
From: GUEST,JIM McAULEY
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 07:29 PM

Sorry --

Should be LYRIC:ADD

JIM McAULEY

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: TOP OF A MOUNTIAN
From: GUEST,JIM
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 07:30 PM

REQUIRED

SILLY ME


JIM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Top of a Mountain (Len Graham sings it)
From: GUEST,JIM
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 08:05 PM

I think its a poam of robert burns.

but is it the right song lyrics

jim mculey..

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Top of a Mountain (Len Graham sings it)
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 08:25 PM

Are you thinking of a version of Bonny Blue-Eyed Nancy?


How could I live on the top of a mountain
With no money in my pocket and no gold for the counting
For I would let the money go, all for to please her fancy
And I would marry no one but my own dear blue eyed Nancy

She's my bonny blue eyed lassie with an air so sweet and tender
Her walk like swans on water and her waist so small and slender
Her golden hair in ringlets fell all o'er her snow white shoulder
And I'll ask her for to marry me and no-one could be bolder

Now there's some people tell me that she's very low in station
And there's more people say she'll be the cause of my ruination
But let them all say what they will, to her I will prove constant still
Till the day that I die she'll be my own lovely lady

How lightly skims the swallow o'er the dark waters of Eochaill
And blithely sings the nightingale so happy to behold her
The winds may blow, the moorcocks crow, the moon shine out so clearly-o
Ah but deeper by far is my love for my own lady

Now there's some people tell me that she's very low in station
And there's more people say she'll be the cause of my ruination
But let them all say what they will, to her I will prove constant still
Till the day that I die she'll be my own lovely lady

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Top of a Mountain (Len Graham sings it)
From: GUEST,JIM McAULEY
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 08:30 PM

yes yes--it is this song thanks very very much
Bonny Blue-Eyed Nany

-jim..

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Top of a Mountain (Len Graham sings it)
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 09:27 PM

See previous discussions:

Bonny Blue-eyed Nancy

How Can I Live at the Top of the Mountai[n]

... and DT file  BONNY BLUE-EYED NANCY

The DT file acknowledges no source, but most texts quoted seem to derive from Elizabeth Cronin, though not necessarily directly; alterations have been made. The second thread indicated above also contains the earliest known text, noted in Scotland around 1826.

The way to find things here when you aren't sure of the title is to use the onsite search engine ("lyrics and knowledge search" at the top of every page) to look for a key phrase.