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Catepillar sheds it's skin to find a butterfly within. This is a condition in life, if achieved is extremely pleasing to the individual. after 60 years of crawling around like a worm, i finally achieved a butterfly like state of self sustaining existence, . The freedom, to flit about as i please for the next 20 years is pleasing indeed.

radiowwww 1 week ago

Hell yeah! Did I just say that? yes I did!

jbyai 2 weeks ago

JUST MISSED!!! "There Is A Mountain" just missed making the Billboard's Top 10 chart; it peaked at No. 11 and spent a total of 9 weeks in the Hot Top 100 in 1967...

sauquoit13456 1 month ago

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corvozoppicando 1 month ago

I believe Donovan wrote that song about the on again, off again, on again KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountian Music Festival that was at the Mt. Tamalpias outdoor theater 6-2-67, a week or so before Monterrey Pop Festival. The Jefferson Airplane, The Doors and the Byrds were the headliners. I think Donovan may have played there too. Tickets for both days were like five bucks. !5,000 people were bussed up the mt on *trans-love busses*

jadi707 1 month ago

This is my most fun song right now. I like mountains. :D

Ashmantle100 1 month ago

Reminds me a little bit of Goin' Up the Country by Canned Heat. Or is it the other way around :)

alworkedup 1 month ago

@alworkedup ...the flute?

PeluMaad 1 month ago

Cool song :)

alworkedup 1 month ago

The music of this era had meaning. This song is wonderful~ Donovan is a poet genius and his music is 'timeless'.

cazna16 1 month ago

i just love these songs. thumbs up if you love them too

randomgamer54 1 month ago

@s6y9l- its garden gates not garden gaze

wingman572 2 months ago

Ahhhhhhh the 70's were did it all go wrong !!!!!!

Tomsouthrock 2 months ago

@Tomsouthrock This was 1967. I think the late '70s is when I think it went wrong with guitarists playing fast meaningless guitar solos and people just wanting the money and not caring about the music.

slpplexi1969 2 months ago

@slpplexi1969 This true its just all to bad it could have been so good

Tomsouthrock 2 months ago

Donovan was born on May 10, 1946 and is now 65 years old. He is going to be a 2012 inductee into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

MrRonnieG 2 months ago

@MrRonnieG .....Yeeeeaaahhhhh!!! Donovan is going be a 2012 inductee for the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame? About time...

Torkgasmicgirl8 2 months ago

I think he was definitely as high as a kite

jorypants 2 months ago

@jorypants umm . . . maybe . . . and maybe not . . . but what does it matter. The man was simply connected deeply with his muse.

soulhealer20 2 months ago

first there is a moorhen then there is no moorhen then there is.

peterpeterxxo 2 months ago

:-) I am still confused! But I used to sing this song when I was a kid in South Africa.

seekoie 3 months ago 2

what is zen koan ?????"?

spizznightelf 3 months ago

Love it~~~~~~~~~

all4musica 3 months ago

...and the inspiration for the Allman Bros. "Mountain Jam"...

justsayinme2u 3 months ago

As soon as I started playing this my cat looked up at me with a WTF expression. He then proceeded to high five me.

bps3013 3 months ago 3

Look upon my garden, gaze, a snail that's what it is....

s6y9l 4 months ago

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bouncy little mother huh? freaks me out, love this

wingman572 4 months ago

Thanks for mentioning the Allman Brothers. Their "Mountain Jam" is one of my favorite guitar pieces.

makahaj341 4 months ago

colin meloy at 2:26

wireilly 5 months ago

que samba rock dos bons, dancei desde que tinha 15 anos eainda danço muito ao som do donovan ,hoje tenho 49 e adoro este samba rock

roselisilveira2010 5 months ago

@0917gva : thanks for sending this one Gayle, it's one of my faves by Donovan ! Gary x

gazzymodo 5 months ago

All I have is an Olive Garden :(

unklewink 5 months ago

climbing the mountain

tough climb

and by reaching the top

the mountain is no longer

charvesa 5 months ago

This song is not "confusing". The statement "First there is a mountain. Then there is no mountain. Then there is." is simply a Zen koan.

DrSimian 5 months ago 15

@DrSimian LOL, thanks for the explanation. I always wondered about that...Lanny (Nocaro)

Nocaro 5 months ago

@Nocaro It refers to seeing the total image at first, then seeing individual elements of it, in which our idea of the original image has been "lost," then being able to combine it all back into the total image again, only this time knowing what's ALL there. The converse would be the line from Mike Nesmith's Different Drum: "You can't see the forest for the trees."

therealjoebloggs 4 months ago

@DrSimian like being in the mountains and the fog takes away, then reveals. Yes, very Zen.

LeondraL 3 months ago

@DrSimian right to thepoint!

TullioWalker 3 months ago

@DrSimian You are right, its not confusing, its not Zen koan either. He's watching a snail crawl across the pointed tops of his picket garden gate. Snail goes up the "mountain", coming down there's no "mountain", goes up the next picket (mountain). Its that simple.

duff558 1 month ago

@duff558 ...best explanation I've heard in 40 years...gracias...

PeluMaad 1 month ago

@duff558 Sorry but I disagree with you. Donavan is referring to a caterpillar's movement in general, and not to the snail crawling across the pointed tops of a picket garden fence, as you stated. If you have ever observed a caterpillar in motion, you will notice that its body will scrunch up and create a "mountain". Then, it flattens itself out in order to move, and the "mountain" goes away... "FIRST there is a MOUNTAIN, THEN there is NO MOUNTAIN, then there IS"

cyclodiene 3 weeks ago