Across the Blue Mountain One morning, one morning, on morning in May I overheard a married man to a young girl say "Arise you up, Pretty Katie, and come along with me Across the Blue Mountain to the Allegheny "I'll buy you a horse, love, and a saddle to ride I'll buy me another'n to ride by your side We'll stop at every tavern and drink when we are dry Across the Blue Mountain goes Katie and I" Well, up stepped her mother, in anger she was then "Daughter, dear daughter, he is a married man Besides, there's young men a plenty is handsomer than he Let him take his own wife to the Allegheny" "Oh mother, dear mother, he's the man of my heart Wouldn't it be an awful shame for me and my love to part I'd envy all the women that ever I did see Across the Blue Mountain to the Allegheny" Well the last time I seen him, he was saddled to ride Katie, his darling, was there by his side A laughing and a singing and happy to be free Across the Blue Mountain to the Allegheny We left before daybreak on a buckskin and a roan Past tall shivering pines where mockingbirds moan Past dark cabin windows where eyes never see Across the Blue Mountains to the Allegheny recorded by Sandy and Caroline Paton SOF
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