The Foggy Mountain Top - Original - The Carter Family

If I was on some foggy mountain top

I’d sail away to the West

I’d sail all around this old wide world

To the boy I love the best

If I had listened t’what Mama said

I would not have been here today

Wishing for things I’ll never have

And weeping my sweet life away

If I was on some foggy mountain top

I’d sail away to the West

I’d sail all around this old wide world

To the boy I love the best

You caused me to weep, you caused me to mourn

You caused me to leave my home

Oh, those lonesome pines and those good old times

I’m on my way back home

If I was on some foggy mountain top

I’d sail away to the West

I’d sail all around this old wide world

To the boy I love the best

Oh, when you see that two-faced blonde

There’s somethin' you can tell 'er

She need not fool her time away

A-tryin' to steal a feller

If I was on some foggy mountain top

I’d sail away to the West

I’d sail all around this old wide world

To the one I love the best

Oh, when you come to court me

Put on your navy blue

That long tail «roust-a-bout"you wear

Don’t do a thing for you

Well if I was on some foggy mountain top

I’d sail away to the West

But I’d sail all around this old wide world

To the boy I love the best