Old Man of the Mountain

Описание: “Old Man of the Mountain,” Albums: Never Learned to Dance (1992). Click "more" for lyrics and details.

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Production Information:
Robbie O’Connell: Vocals, guitar;
Roxanne O’Connell: Harmony vocals;
Lindsay O’Donovan: Harmony vocals;
Tim Britton: Uilleann pipes, whistles;
Johnny Cunningham: Fiddles;
Seamus Eagan: Flute;
Richard Gates: Bass;
Mance Grady; Bodhrán, African drum;
Jimmy Keane: Accordion;
Billy Novick: Saxophone, clarinet;
Tom O’Carroll: Banjo;
Brian O’Neill: Keyboards;
Ruth Rothstein: French horn;
John Sands: Drums

Produced by Johnny Cunningham
Recorded at Wellspring Sound Studio, Nonantum, Massachusetts
Engineers: Huck Bennert, Eric Kilburn

Lyrics:

OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN
© Robbie O’Connell 1983 Slievenamon Music (BMI)

His story must have started when he was in the 1st World War
Many times I’ve heard that was the bloodiest war of all.
He must have made his mind up then, if he saw it to the end,
He’d have to make some changes when he’d come home again.

And when the war was over he could never settle down
He’d work some times for farmers and he’d move from town to town.
He never really made a plan, he just lived from day to day.
He didn’t seem to notice as the years just slipped away.

Chorus:
Old man of the mountain, what happened in the war?
Was something lost forever there that you were searching for?
Or was it fear of killing or the fear of being killed
That made you want to live out there alone upon the hills?

And when the second war began in nineteen thirty nine
He went into the mountains and he left the world behind.
They only saw him in the town when his army pension came.
Then he’d stock up his provisions and be on his way again.

And in the Comeragh mountains, he lived for twenty years
Like a hermit in the wilderness with his ragged clothes and beard
Some said that he was crazy, or that he was just afraid
Some saw a quiet dignity in his solitary ways.

I can still remember the day I heard he’d died
I was only eight or nine, but it touched me deep inside
For though I never knew him, I still felt I’d lost a friend
There was something gone forever that I wouldn’t find again.