Foggy Mountain Top (Live) versuri

Foggy Mountain Top (Live) lyrics by Bill Monroe, Doc Watson

Spoken Intro
Doc Watson and myself, we don’t hardly ever get to work together
Uh, maybe three or four times out of the year
And we never have a chance to rehearse because it’s always somebody trying to pick a banjo up, a guitar, or something
We don’t get the chance to rehearse any much

A night or so, we were out there practicing, and we happened to think about an old timer called „Foggy Mountain Top” that we recorded years ago, me and Charlie Monroe
Now, Doc sings a wonderful lead on this song, and I try to do a little tenor
We’ll do it for ya

Chorus
If I was on some foggy mountain top
I’d sail away to the west
I’d sail all around this whole wide world
To the girl I love the best

Verse 1
Whenever you see that girl of mine
There’s something you must tell her
She need not to fool her time away
To court some other feller

Chorus
If I was on some foggy mountain top
I’d sail away to the west
I’d sail all around this whole wide world
To the girl I love the best

Verse 2
If I had listened to what Mama said
I would not have been here today
A-lyin’ around this old jailhouse
A-weepin’ my sweet life away

Chorus
If I was on some foggy mountain top
I’d sail away to the west
I’d sail all around this whole wide world
To the girl, I love the best

Verse 3
Whenever you go a-courting
I’ll tell you how to do
Pull off that long-tailed roustabout
Put on your navy blue

Chorus
If I was on some foggy mountain top
I’d sail away to the west
I’d sail all around this whole wide world
To the girl, I love the best