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Artist: The Carter Family
Canonical path: /the-carter-family/foggy-mountain-top
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Foggy Mountain Top
Read Foggy Mountain Top lyrics by The Carter Family on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Foggy Mountain Top
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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
If I had listened to what mama said
I would not a been here today
Lying around this old jailhouse
Weepin' my sweet life away
Oh, when 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
She caused me to weep, she caused me to mourn
She caused me to leave my home
Oh, the lonesome pines and those good old times
I'm on my way back home
Oh, when you go a-courtin
I tell you how to do
Pull off that long tail roustabout
Put on your navy blue
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The Carter Family performs "Foggy Mountain Top", and this lyric page sits inside the The Carter Family catalog on LyroVerse.
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