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RUN MOUNTAIN. Old-Time, Breakdown and Song. Most versions stem from J.E. Mainer, who did not claim to have composed it but rather said it was an old song he had heard.

Run Mountain, take a little hill. (x2)

Mainer himself said the last part was “check a little hill,” meaning to investigate a hill, but his brother Wade thought it may have been a mishearing of “there’s sugar in the hill,” referring to the preparation of moonshine, according to Lyle Lofgren.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

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Recorded sources: - King 819, J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers. Folkways FA 2399, New Lost City Ramblers ' "vol. 4."

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]