Songs about mountains

[PA Ridgerunner]

Now the first of December was covered with snow,
And so was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston.
Though the Berkshires seemed dreamlike on account of that frostin',
With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go...

[WinterWarlock]

With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go...

I always wondered where he was planning to go with 10,000 more miles...Ushuaia maybe?

[Marykaa]

I didn't see : Climb Every Mountain (another Sound of Music song)



Climb every mountain
Search, high and low
Follow every byway
Every path you know

Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
'Till you find your dream

A dream that will need
All the love you can give
Every day of your life
For as long as you live

Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
'Till you find your dream

A dream that will need
All the love you can give
Every day of your life
For as long as you live

Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
'Till you find, your dre-e-e-e-e-e-e-eam!

[ScAtTeRbOnE]

Dan Berggren - Adirondack Folk Singer - Mountain Air A great folk song about the benefits of spending time in the mountains.

Another good one is Song of The Wilderness

[CatskillKev]

I forgot this Band song. When I get off of this mountain...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDnlU6rPfwY

[YanaLG]

Here's my contribution.

http://russianclimb.com/vysotsky.html

Vladimir Vysotsky was the greatest Russian bard, poet, actor, writer, everything... Look him up on wiki if you are interested. The link above has the translation of his songs about the mountains (IMHO, a very good translation). Some of the songs came from his movie "The Vertical" (about daring climbing in Caucasus).

Here's my favorite:

Saying good-bye to the mountains

To the bustle of streets, flow of cars, traffic blocks
To city life we return, we come back, as it happens.
We descend from the conquered high mountaintops
And we leave our hearts, and we leave our hearts in the mountains.

There is no use to argue about it,
I have known for a very long time:
There is one thing that's better than mountains,
And it's mountains that we haven't climbed.

Who would want to be left in the lurch, with no hopes?
Who would want to give in, his heart disobeyin'?
We descend from the conquered high mountaintops...
Nothing doing: gods, too, used to come down from heaven.

There is no use to argue about it,
I have known for a very long time:
There is one thing that's better than mountains,
And it's mountains that we haven't climbed.

Many beautiful songs, many hopes, words of love
Are inspired by mountains, they eternally call us.
Yet we have to descend, for a year or for life
For we have to return from the mountains... always.

There is no use to argue about it,
I have known for a very long time:
There is one thing that's better than mountains
And it's mountains that we haven't climbed.


© Alec Vagapov. Translation, 1998

I think that this line "There is one thing that's better than mountains, and it's mountains that we haven't climbed", resonates with so many of us.

[Mags]

Excellent thread bump! Here's a few of my favorites i didnt see mentioned

Big Rock Candy Mountain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKk_kPmAk4

Rocky Top:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n9prNixjbg

Take me With you to the Mountains (that del mccoury song somebody mentioned earlier)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZPnMaNDAhQ

[CoreyD]

Now the first of December was covered with snow,
And so was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston.
Though the Berkshires seemed dreamlike on account of that frostin',
With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go...

My favorite James Taylor Song.

[MtnManJohn]

Well, I may be going off-topic here, but since we do climb mountains, these two songs seem to set a good tone:

Fleetwood Mac, "Go Your Own Way"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ul-cZyuYq4

Peter Frampton, "Show Me The Way"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIRqMTg1GVc

Big Country, "In A Big Country"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOgCjTXVnWk

[Bunchberry]

When we drive up to the ADK we ALWAYS play the album Fragile by Yes.

In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky and they stand there!

Obviously singing about Lake Colden!

[Mike P.]

Since MtnManJohn went off topic.... Classic pre-sold out REO:

Riding the Storm out & Golden Country

And then there's Molly Hatchet's Flirting with disaster.

In the Allman's, & covered by Molly Hatchet, "Dreams" he does come down from the hill top...

Now to make the drive up from CT, I need a song that drives my heel especially when there is a last car to pass. (paraphrased from Radar Love)

[Blackbear]

Excellent thread bump! Here's a few of my favorites i didnt see mentioned

Big Rock Candy Mountain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKk_kPmAk4]

Thanks for the flash back back in the day after Sunday dinner ,my Grandparents would bring out their guitars and sing . This was one of their favorites

[MtnManJohn]

When we drive up to the ADK we ALWAYS play the album Fragile by Yes.

In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky and they stand there!

Obviously singing about Lake Colden!

Holy cow! I can't believe you mentioned that album! That is my favorite!!!!

[CatskillKev]

From You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish, Sing to Me by Reo Speedwagon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0jS-BN9ff8

[CatskillKev]

Another from You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish, Blazin' Your Own Trail Again : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ4jUWoMdZI