How can I live on the top of a mountain?

by Toni Piper

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I learned this song from Mick Dwyer, who used to sing it at the trad sessions in Nancy Blakes I used to go to, in Limerick, Ireland.

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How can I live at the top of the mountain
With no money in my pocket and no gold for the counting?
But I would let all the money go all for to please her fancy-o
And I would marry no one but my bonnie blue-eyed Nancy

She's my bonnie blue-eyed Nancy with an air so fair and tender
Her lips are like the roses red, and her waist is lean and slender.
Her golden hair in ringlets fell all on her snow-white shoulders
And I'd ask her for to marry me, and there's no one could be bolder

Some people say that she is very low in station
And other people say she'll be the cause of my ruination,
But let them all say what they will, to her I will prove constant still
Till the day that I die she will be my only lovely lady

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released May 8, 2015
vocals and guitar - Toni Piper

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Toni Piper Vienna, Austria

I play Uilleann Pipes, Tin Whistle, Guitar, Cello, Fiddle, I sing and I am now learning to play the Concertina. Based in Vienna, Austria but spent a long time in Ireland. I love music, dogs, friends, cooking & eating, nature, ducks, chickens, and I also love to make teddy bears and wood turning bowls and nice little things. ... more

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