50 songs about a person who lives on a mountain or hill

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1. Man On The Silver Mountain - Rainbow

kornrulez6969, Friday, 20 August 2010 15:59 (fifteen years ago)

2. Wolverton Mountain - Claude King

what happened in the 80s stays in the 80s (m coleman), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:02 (fifteen years ago)

3. Wonderboy - Tenacious D

a mix of music (Lionel Ritchie) and kicks (my tongue) (Phil D.), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:03 (fifteen years ago)

4. A Mansion On The Hill - Hank Williams

The Redd, The Blecch & Other Things (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:04 (fifteen years ago)

5. What's Shakin' On The Hill - Nick Lowe

The Redd, The Blecch & Other Things (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:05 (fifteen years ago)

6. Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh

what happened in the 80s stays in the 80s (m coleman), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:05 (fifteen years ago)

7. Man In The Hills - Burning Spear

The Redd, The Blecch & Other Things (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

8. Blue Mountain - Michael Hurley
9. The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill - Husker Du

not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)

10. Fool on the Hill

Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:08 (fifteen years ago)

11. My Tennessee Mountain Home - Dolly Parton

what happened in the 80s stays in the 80s (m coleman), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)

12. Michael From The Mountains - Joni Mitchell

what happened in the 80s stays in the 80s (m coleman), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)

13. Rocky Top - Osborne Bros

what happened in the 80s stays in the 80s (m coleman), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:13 (fifteen years ago)

14. My Clinch Mountain Home - Carter Family

ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:18 (fifteen years ago)

15. Michael Hurley - Indian Chiefs & Hula Girls
16. John Hartford - Up On The Hill Where They Do The Boogie

not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:19 (fifteen years ago)

17. Mt St Helens - Jim and Jennie and the Pinetops

pauls00, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:19 (fifteen years ago)

15. The Sound of Music (a stretch maybe, but the hills are alive)

ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:20 (fifteen years ago)

19. "Morning Side of the Mountain" - Donny & Marie. Rock'n'roll, yeah.

Jeff W, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:20 (fifteen years ago)

20. Earl Johnson - Take Me Back To My Old Mountain Home

not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:21 (fifteen years ago)

21. David Bowie - Up The Hill Backwards

Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:22 (fifteen years ago)

22. Steely Dan - Aja

Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:22 (fifteen years ago)

23. Stanley Brothers - How Mountain Girls Can Love

not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:23 (fifteen years ago)

24. Townes van Zandt - Our Mother The Mountain (maybe a stretch?)

not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:24 (fifteen years ago)

16-17-18?

also, please

16. Fool on the Hill -- Whiney & the Beatles

ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

17. King Of The Hill - Roger McGuinn

a mix of music (Lionel Ritchie) and kicks (my tongue) (Phil D.), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

15. Michael Hurley - Indian Chiefs & Hula Girls
16. John Hartford - Up On The Hill Where They Do The Boogie

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, August 20, 2010 4:19 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

17. Mt St Helens - Jim and Jennie and the Pinetops

― pauls00, Friday, August 20, 2010 4:19 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

15. The Sound of Music (a stretch maybe, but the hills are alive)

― ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, August 20, 2010 4:20 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

Naw man. There's already a 16-17-18 - you just posted 15 instead of 18 upthread. Also I already said Fool on the Hill. Get with it man!

Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

(xpost)

Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:26 (fifteen years ago)

ok so king of the hill - roger mcguinn was 25

Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:27 (fifteen years ago)

oops i can't count ;_;

ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:27 (fifteen years ago)

Minutemen, "King of the Hill"

Pete Scholtes, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:27 (fifteen years ago)

27. Jandek - House Up On The Hill

not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:30 (fifteen years ago)

28. Phish - Possum

kkvgz, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:31 (fifteen years ago)

29. Laurel & Hardy (and many others) - "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"

Jeff W, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:31 (fifteen years ago)

30. The Doors - Maggie Magill ("she lived on a hill")
31. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (?)

superflyguy, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:34 (fifteen years ago)

32. The Rolling Stones - Loving Cup

kkvgz, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:36 (fifteen years ago)

Nah, Running Up That Hill isn't about someone who lives on a hill.

I would say that 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' counts, though.

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emil.y, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:37 (fifteen years ago)

Very good call on Loving Cup!

Trip Maker, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:40 (fifteen years ago)

33. Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls

kkvgz, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:40 (fifteen years ago)

34. Hawkwind - Hassan I Sabbah (the old man on the mountain)

Trip Maker, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:40 (fifteen years ago)

(btw, I'm assuming that emil's suggestion of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" evens out the suggestion of "running up that hill", numerically)

kkvgz, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:41 (fifteen years ago)

35. Baxendale - Me & My Piano

Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:41 (fifteen years ago)

Do cliffs count as "hills or mountains"?

kkvgz, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:43 (fifteen years ago)

36. Neil Young-Sugar Mountain

Zeppelin to Howlin Wolf: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:45 (fifteen years ago)

37. Led Zeppelin: Misty Mountain Hop

Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:50 (fifteen years ago)

38. Led Zeppelin - Black Mountainside

Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:50 (fifteen years ago)

Nice job ferreting out those lyrics about living on a mountain on Black Mountainside.

Zeppelin to Howlin Wolf: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)

plagiarized from Bert Janch, btw ;)

Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:53 (fifteen years ago)

39: Clarence Ashley -- The Coo Coo Bird

Duke, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:56 (fifteen years ago)

plagiarized from Bert Janch, btw ;)

― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, August 20, 2010 12:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Probably!!

Zeppelin to Howlin Wolf: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 20 August 2010 16:57 (fifteen years ago)

40. The Beta Band - Eclipse

acoleuthic, Friday, 20 August 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)

41. 'Big Love', Fleetwood Mac

Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 20 August 2010 17:06 (fifteen years ago)

42. Springsteen - Mansion on the Hill

Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 August 2010 17:07 (fifteen years ago)

43. Dinosaur -- Mountain Man

Duke, Friday, 20 August 2010 17:17 (fifteen years ago)

44. Björk - "Hyperballad"

LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 20 August 2010 17:19 (fifteen years ago)

45. The Heptones - "Living Up On a Hill"

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 20 August 2010 18:12 (fifteen years ago)

46. Delroy Williams - "Mountain Top"

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 20 August 2010 18:14 (fifteen years ago)

47. Loretta Lynn - "High On a Mountain Top"

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 20 August 2010 18:15 (fifteen years ago)

Sugar Mountain is a gray area because the narrator does not live there, though he wishes to. If the song was "Ballad of the Barkers and the Smiling Aisle Girl of Sugar Mountain" it would be more clear cut.

kornrulez6969, Friday, 20 August 2010 19:01 (fifteen years ago)

I must confess that the same applies to The Coo Coo bird. The narrator only asserts his intention to build himself a log-cabin on "a mountain so high".

But I reckon he already lives on a mountain -- he simply wants to move up in the world to a higher one...

Duke, Friday, 20 August 2010 19:19 (fifteen years ago)

I Walk the Hill - Big Country
Notting Hill Carnivore - Rancid Hell Spawn
Mountain of Love - Johnny Rivers

Michael Train, Friday, 20 August 2010 19:30 (fifteen years ago)

Lou Reed "Coney Island Baby"

glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 August 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

plagiarized from Bert Janch, btw ;)

― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, August 20, 2010 12:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Probably!!

it IS copped from Bert Jansch, and Jansch's version has words. words that complete and utter ripoff artists Zeppelin opted to omit in their shameless plagiarism

glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 August 2010 19:42 (fifteen years ago)

People who claim to want to live on mountains rarely follow through ime.

Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 August 2010 19:44 (fifteen years ago)

Up on the Ridge - Dierks Bentley?

JesseJane, Friday, 20 August 2010 19:55 (fifteen years ago)

"The Wind" - PJ Harvey is kinda about this, right?

tylerw, Friday, 20 August 2010 19:58 (fifteen years ago)

Captain Beefheart - Wild Life

Chaim Poutine (NickB), Friday, 20 August 2010 19:59 (fifteen years ago)

Yes. Good call on The Wind.

The Old Man From The Mountain - Merle Haggard
Time Passes Slowly - Bob Dylan

kornrulez6969, Friday, 20 August 2010 20:01 (fifteen years ago)

John Denver - Country Roads

My head is full of numbers from the internet! (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 20 August 2010 20:27 (fifteen years ago)

Buffy Ste. Marie's Piney Wood Hills

jim wentworth, Saturday, 21 August 2010 04:47 (fifteen years ago)

Tecumseh Valley - Townes Van Zandt
These Hills - Iris Dement
Rose From the Mountain - The Flatlanders

that's not my post, Saturday, 21 August 2010 06:36 (fifteen years ago)


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