The Foggy Mountain Top - The Carter Family

If I was on some foggy mountain top

I’d sail away to the west

I’d sail around this whole wide world

To the girl I love the best

If I had listened what mama says

I would not have been here today

A-lying around this old jail house

A-weeping my sweet life away

Yeah, oh-lay-ee-oh, lee-oh-la-ee-ay

Lee-oh-lay-ee, lay-ee, oh-lay-ee

Oh, if you see that girl of mine

There’s something you must tell her

She need not be fooling no time away

To court some other feller

Oh, she’s caused me to weep, she’s caused me to mourn

She caused me to leave my home

For the lonesome pine and the good old times

I’m on my way back home

Oh, when you go a-courting

I’ll tell you how to do

Pull off that long-tailed roustabout

Put on your navy blue