Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain (Official Audio)

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  • Опубликовано: 5 дек 2024
  • "Our Mother the Mountain" from Townes Van Zandt's album Our Mother the Mountain
    Listen & Purchase: townesvanzandt...
    Lyrics:
    My lover comes to me with a rose on her bosom
    The moon's dancin' purple
    All through her black hair
    And a ladies-in-waiting she stands 'neath my window
    And the sun will rise soon
    On the false and the fair
    Sing a-too a-loor-a-lie-o
    She tells me she comes from my mother the mountain
    Her skin fits her tightly
    And her lips do not lie
    She silently slips from her throat a medallion
    Slowly she twirls it
    In front of my eyes
    Sing a-too a-loor-a-lie-o
    I watch her, I love her, I long for to touch her
    The satin she's wearin'
    Is shimmering blue
    Outside my window her ladies are sleeping
    My dogs a gone hunting
    The howling is through
    Sing a-too a-loor-a-lie-o
    So I reach for her hand and her eyes turn to poison
    And her hair turns to splinters,
    And her flesh turns to brine
    She leaps across the room, she stands in the window
    And screams that my first-born
    Will surely be blind
    Sing a-too a-loor-a-lie-o
    Then she throws herself out to the black of the nightfall
    She's parted her lips
    But she makes not a sound
    I fly down the stairway, and I run to the garden
    No trace of my true love
    Is there to be found
    Sing a-too a-loor-a-lie-o
    So walk these hills lightly, and watch who you're lovin'
    By mother the mountain
    I swear that it's true
    And love not a woman with hair black as midnight
    And a dress made of satin
    All shimmering blue
    Sing a-too a-loor-a-lie-o
    Oh my lover comes to me with a rose on her bosom
    The moon's dancing purple all through her black hair
    And a lady's in waiting, she'll stand 'neath my window
    And the sun will rise soon on the false and the fair
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Комментарии • 48

  • @frank9995
    @frank9995 3 года назад +91

    My favorite kind of folk / country music is the kind that’s eerie and haunting like this. Ghost stories, murder ballads, and dark fairy tales.

    • @mrbushwookie6051
      @mrbushwookie6051 2 года назад +1

      You got any songs/albums/artists you recommend? I'm trying to find more music like this

    • @frank9995
      @frank9995 2 года назад +6

      @@mrbushwookie6051 Check out the album "Built With Bones" by Christian Williams, and "Sackcloth & Ashes" by 16 Horsepower.

    • @JohnDavis-tj1bl
      @JohnDavis-tj1bl 3 месяца назад +1

      @@mrbushwookie6051the ghost of Eli red crow by Nashville blue grass band but it’s real had to find…

    • @SamwiseOutdoors
      @SamwiseOutdoors Месяц назад

      That pretty accurately describes "Saint John the Gambler".

  • @billj4524
    @billj4524 10 месяцев назад +12

    Genius is often overlooked when it’s not in the mainstream…especially in music

  • @cotopaxipauli6502
    @cotopaxipauli6502 2 месяца назад +3

    My jaw dropped and everything else melted away when i heard this for the first time. The atmosphere of it instantly consumed me. Beautiful and foreboding. Nick Cave seems to have repeatedly reaped the rewards of Townes pioneering work.

  • @bigdaddypiggy
    @bigdaddypiggy 6 месяцев назад +10

    Another perfect example of undeniable talent not meaning financial success …..Townes is better than 50% of what you hear on classic rock/country radio 🤨

    • @carloscristobal807
      @carloscristobal807 6 месяцев назад +7

      Townes is better than 99.999% of what you hear on classic radio.😃

    • @kruksog
      @kruksog 4 месяца назад

      He's widely adored by fans of more.... eh.... Niche music. Like, if you ask a metalhead, or a punk, or whatever if there's any country or folk they love, Townes is sure to be one of the most common responses (as well as Hoyt Axton.)

  • @AtTheCrossroads
    @AtTheCrossroads 6 месяцев назад +14

    It’s kinda sad that one of the best songs, of the best songwriter who ever lived, has only 77k views in 4 years.

  • @asherlayton8420
    @asherlayton8420 2 года назад +35

    If you ever see this song or comment know that your part of the world that's meant to stay if it were put to the test, seeking out this songs proves your still of normal consciousness and not a complete momo, hopefully RUclips last long enough people even past me grandkids could see this and hopefully people will still seek this but if you find it God bless you and cherish all small things for those are tye real important things not the TV or phones or bong rips that let you pass tye time to tye inevitable, even tho bongrips enhance the experience just all in moderation, still God bless ya and have a wonderful journey

    • @JoaoSilva-zt2lg
      @JoaoSilva-zt2lg 2 года назад +3

      yes, hopefully people will watch it and finally have piece of mind

    • @herrmiseria
      @herrmiseria 2 года назад +6

      I don't have children yet but when I do I will make sure to introduce them to real music and hopefully they will do the same for their children. Townes' poetry should live on

    • @charlesbogle6544
      @charlesbogle6544 2 года назад +3

      Very well said... Check out his spooky and brilliant song "Snow Don't Fall"... Peace and wisdom, seek timeless truth and strive for the light eternal 🌄

    • @hex1443
      @hex1443 Год назад +4

      lol bless you too, I like the addendum on the bong rips ;)

    • @joannehack7588
      @joannehack7588 4 месяца назад +1

      amen 🙏

  • @isaiahbasaldua924
    @isaiahbasaldua924 4 месяца назад +3

    a beautiful folk country poem about the beauty of life, nature, and love. So eerie it cuts at your soul

  • @dantean
    @dantean 3 года назад +24

    Some of his greatest poetry.

  • @mertalakr573
    @mertalakr573 2 года назад +12

    I've noticed that one of the many musicians inspired by Van Zandt is Nick Cave. Cave's Where the Wild Roses Grow sounds like this song, even both of the lyrics have the same vibe.

  • @076don
    @076don 2 года назад +13

    What a beautiful song by a master song writer.
    🤙🤙💚💚✌️✌️

  • @caseysmith544
    @caseysmith544 2 года назад +15

    This is one of the best Classic style Country songs I have heard.

  • @jasonmcmillan4373
    @jasonmcmillan4373 2 года назад +15

    I came upon his music thanks to Colter Wall, & so far I havent heard a bad song by him. What an artist.

    • @kellymiller3432
      @kellymiller3432 2 года назад +2

      check out blaze Foley, sturgill Simpson, Sierra Ferrell and lost dog street band if ya haven't

    • @craigluhr7243
      @craigluhr7243 2 года назад +2

      TVZ was one of the greatest songwriters ever. In the Top 5. I was lucky to see him live a few times back in the 80's

    • @craigluhr7243
      @craigluhr7243 2 года назад

      @@kellymiller3432 Blaze Foley, TVZ, John Prine. All are amazing.

  • @billj4524
    @billj4524 Год назад +9

    Incredible song…totally mesmerising

  • @lawrenceelliott2890
    @lawrenceelliott2890 3 месяца назад +2

    Love!

  • @haydenpettit5829
    @haydenpettit5829 Год назад +2

    Stunning.

  • @reddwing4368
    @reddwing4368 Год назад +5

    Terror folk
    Like poe kinda
    But deeper evil
    So original and
    Terribly beautiful
    Another one of his hidden gems
    That seem to go on and on
    Just like my own
    The beaverbrnd witch
    If one cares to believe me I too have a fable
    Of

    • @zfunk56
      @zfunk56 8 месяцев назад +1

      I love the term terror folk! Very cool!

  • @SamwiseOutdoors
    @SamwiseOutdoors Месяц назад +1

    Remember County music from before the bootlickers took it over? Peperidge Farm remembers.

  • @jamesonhook1405
    @jamesonhook1405 Год назад +4

    the sun will rise soon on the false and the fair

  • @alexandrMGr8
    @alexandrMGr8 Год назад +1

    This would go well in the new new scoresese film , the killing of flower moon.

  • @jn2050
    @jn2050 3 года назад +16

    Her Hair turns into splitters. WOW

  • @bigdaddypiggy
    @bigdaddypiggy Год назад +3

    Dax Riggs does a fantastic version of this song

    • @zfunk56
      @zfunk56 8 месяцев назад +1

      Omg. I'm going to go find that version. I had no idea. Dax Riggs is great.

    • @bigdaddypiggy
      @bigdaddypiggy 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@zfunk56: You have excellent taste music I must say 🤓🖤🤘🏻

    • @zfunk56
      @zfunk56 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@bigdaddypiggy Danke. I think so.

  • @cheirinhodepacoca
    @cheirinhodepacoca 2 месяца назад

    what is this song about?

  • @Howler54Z
    @Howler54Z 9 месяцев назад

    What sort of flute is that?

    • @v1dupjo
      @v1dupjo 7 месяцев назад +5

      flute.

    • @MikeC-od9sr
      @MikeC-od9sr 20 дней назад

      It sounds like a transverse flute of some sort