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FOR YASGUR'S FARM
by Mountain

Who am I but you and the sun
A sad reflection of everyone
Was it me who let you walk away?
Were you the one or is it we're the same?

What are we in time going by?
The simple story of a younger life
Half in dreams and somehow thru the day
We haven't come so far to lose our way

[ Chorus ]
Look at me
I believe it's true
You're a part of me
I'm a part of you

Love is only what we come to live
The waking, breathing, and all we give
A crystal passing reflected in our eyes
Elcipsing all the jealousy and lies

[ Chorus ]

Quiet as the voices in a dream
Without you, shadowed, the things I see
Remember the evening I let you walk away
Were you the one or is it we're the same?

Peace
LionHeart
February 2006



MOUNTAIN
Mountain's Website

Mountain was mainly active in the early 1970s. The band still tours and has a number of UK and US dates scheduled in 2006.
The classic-era lineup of the group was Leslie West on guitar, Felix Pappalardi on bass, Corky Laing on drums (the original drummer was N. D. Smart), and Steve Knight on piano and organ. West's raw vocals, Laing's flowing drumming, and Pappalardi's heavy but not overly imposing bass lines were the elements of Mountain's distinctive sound.

Mountain played at the Woodstock Festival but the band did not appear in the film of the event nor was it included on the first album. The group received a certain measure of critical acclaim but never achieved great commercial success.

The title track to their 1971 album Nantucket Sleighride was used as the theme tune to the UK political and current affairs television program Weekend World, which was aired between 1972 and 1986.

On April 17, 1983 Gail Collins Pappalardi, Felix's wife and songwriting partner, shot him once in the neck in their fifth-floor East Side Manhattan apartment. He was pronounced dead at the scene and Gail was charged with second-degree murder, but acquitted. Richie Scarlet has taken over as bass player on the band's recent tours.

In February of 2006, Mountain is performing at B.B. King's Bar and Grill in New York City, and on April 29th, at the Westchester County Center.

The band was inspired by legendary power trio Cream, which Pappalardi was an "unofficial" member of; he was featured heavily on Cream's second LP, Disraeli Gears.

Leslie West & Mountain at Woodstock 69
Song's and times of performance
Day Three
1. Blood Of The Sun (3:05)B (3:31)C
2. Stormy Monday*#
3. Theme From An Imaginary Western * (5:44)B (5:26)C
4. Long Red* (5:45)R
5. For Yasgur's Farm [then untitled]*
6. You And Me (?) (unreleased track, actual title unknown)*
7. Waiting To Take You Away* (4:39)R
8. Dreams Of Milk And Honey [Leslie West quote]
9. Blind Man [Leslie West quote]
10. Blue Suede Shoes [quote from a close friend of Leslie West's]
11. Southbound Train (2:30)b (3:30)D
Note: Although Mountain did play Blood Of The Sun and Theme From An Imaginary Western at the festival, the versions of these songs on the Woodstock II LPs were in fact NOT recorded at Woodstock, but at another (unknown) venue.

For listen samples and reviews, click on CD cover photo. In new window,
click on CD photo again and scroll down.


Climbing!
Live At Woodstock
1971 Nantucket Sleighride
1971 Flowers of Evil
1972 Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On


1974 Twin Peaks
1974 Avalanche
Leslie West-Mountain
The Best of Mountain


MY LADY
by Mountain

I see her sailing on her silver wings
With hands that move like little trees
Alive and bending in my raging storm
To a heartbeat my lady lives for me (repeat)

Out of the country to my city life
All wrapped in dreams she wears like pearls
She dances to the music that I play for her
And my lady is the softness in my world (repeat)

Chorus
Coming back from the Mountain
My lady waits for me (repeat)

In paint and ribbons and her colored shells
All she imagines for my days
And weaves a life that is feeling good for me
And My lady hears every note I play (repeat)

My rooms are filled with all she's made by hand
My songs are filled with all her rhymes
My heart is filled with the work that we've been doing
And the children we'll be having all in good time (repeat)

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