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If I’d only listened to what my mama said I would not be here today A lying around this old jailhouse Wasting my poor life away
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There are more than 3,000 stories in Adventure Journal’s archives, most of which are evergreen, and occasionally we put the best of them back on the home page for new readers to see.—Ed. It seems like mountain songs come from two places: the South, the home of original mountain music, and the West, where bands are either singing about Colorado or are from Colorado. Of course, there are plenty of exceptions, but the majority of iconic songs about mountains tend to fall in one of those two categories. But, there just aren’t that many songs about mountains – unlike, say, pop songs about love, or songs about drugs, or songs about money. In no particular order: 1. John Denver, “Rocky Mountain High” 2. Loretta Lynn, “High On a Mountain Top” 3. The Osborne Brothers, “Rocky Top” 4. Fleet Foxes, “Blue Ridge Mountains” 5. Neil Young, “Sugar Mountain” 6. Dolly Parton, “Tennessee Mountain Home” 7. Townes Van Zandt, “Snowin on Raton” 8. Harry McClintock, “Big Rock Candy Mountain” 9. Led Zeppelin, “Misty Mountain Hop” 10. Joe Walsh, “Rocky Mountain Way” 11. Toots and the Maytals, “Country Roads” (cover) 12. Flatt & Scruggs, “Blue Ridge Cabin Home” 13. Flatt & Scruggs, “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” 14. First Aid Kit, “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” (cover) 15. Yonder Mountain String Band, “Half Moon Rising” 16. Phish, “Colonel Forbin’s Ascent” 17. Alabama, “Mountain Music” Photo by Shutterstock |