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Lyr Req: How Can I Live at the Top of a Mountain

21 Jan 03 - 01:12 PM (#871541)
Subject: Lyr Req: how can I live on the top of a mountain
From: GUEST,madlangans3@earthlink.net

Please forgive me if this is already in your archives, but I can't seem to find it. The song is on the Bothy Band's After Hours. It is so beautiful. Thank you very much in advance. Again, sorry if it's right there and I am missing it.


21 Jan 03 - 01:22 PM (#871553)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: how can I live on the top of a mountain
From: Malcolm Douglas

It's in the DT as BONNY BLUE-EYED NANCY and with a slightly different first line, which would be why you couldn't find it. It seems to have been altered by professional performers who have recorded it widely in recent years.

See also this discussion:

Lyr Add: THE BONNIE BLUE-EYED LASSIE Irish and Scottish texts posted by John Moulden, with very useful notes; the only two versions found in tradition, it appears.


21 Jan 03 - 02:44 PM (#871623)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: how can I live on the top of a mountain
From: GUEST,madlangans3

Thank you very much!