Run Mountain
Composer: Traditional
Recordings
Run Mountain
Good Ole Mountain Music, Wade Mainer and Mountaineers , 1959
The New Lost City Ramblers, Vol. 4, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1962
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers, Mainer's Mountaineers, 1973
Dulcimer - More Old Time And Traditional Music, Ralph Lee Smith, 1975
Plank Road String Band, Plank Road String Band, 1976
All The Good Times, The Angel Band, 197?
Bluegrass Hall Of Fame, Various Artists (J.E.Mainer's Mountaineers), 1987
Up on Pyle Mountain, The Famous Pyle brothers, 1989
Oh Boy! O'Boy!, Tim O'Brien and The O'Boys, 1993
Run Mountain, J. E. Mainer & His Mountaineers, 1997
Oh Boy! O'Boy!, Tim O'Brien & the O'Boys, 19??
Ghost Country, Marley's Ghost, 19??
EP, Don Reno, Red Smiley & the Tennessee Cutups, 19??
Bluegrass Bonanza, Various Artists (J.E.Mainer's Mountaineers), 2001
Run Mountain: North American Songs & Ballads, Kieron Means, 2002
Old Time Mountain Music / More Old Time Mountain Music, J.E. Mainer & His Mountaineers, 2007
Chuck A Little Hill
Songs Of The Old West, Ed McCurdy, 196?
Notes
Played by the Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers in San Carlos on June 11th 1962.
The Chuck A Little Hill title is rare and derives from the use of that line in the chorus.
The lyrics of the version performed by the Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers are as follows;
Goin' on the mountain,The "Way up on the mountain, Give my horn a blow" is a floating verse that occurs in many traditional songs such as Crow Black Chicken and Old Joe Clark.
Get me a load of pine,
Put it on the wagon,
I rode down behind.(Chorus)
Run mountain, chuck a little hill,
Run mountain, chuck a little hill,
Run mountain, chuck a little hill,
There you'll get your fill.Many miles from my home,
Roosters crow for day,
Me upstairs with another man's wife,
Better be getting away.Chorus...
Way up on the mountain,
Give my horn a blow,
Thought I heard my true love say,
It's coming from my (beau?)Chorus...
When I'm in the fields hard at work,
I sit down to play,
Thinking of my own true love,
She's many miles away.Chorus...
Wished I had a needle and thread,
Fine as I could sew,
Sew my pretty girl to my side,
Down the road I'd go.Chorus...
Once I had a little girl,
Got her from the south,
Only thing that's wrong with her,
She had too big a mouth.Chorus...
Took my girl to the blacksmiths shop,
To have her mouth made small,
Turned around a time or two,
Swallowed that shop and all.Chorus...
Oct 2003