DAX RIGGS-(OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN)""LIVE SOLO"" #6TH SONG

DAX RIGGS MAY 12, 2007 SPANISH MOON BATON ROUGE LA

(OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN) LYRICS BY "Townes Van Zandt"

My lover comes to me with a rose on her bosom
The moon's dancin' purple
All through her black hair
And a ladies-in-waiting she stands 'neath my window
And the sun will rise soon on the false and the fair

She tells me she comes from my mother the mountain
Her skin fits her tightly
And her lips do not lie
She silently slips from her throat a medallion
Slowly she twirls it in front of my eyes

I watch her, I love her, I long for to touch her
The satin she's wearin'
Is shimmering blue
Outside my window her ladies are sleeping
My dogs have gone hunting
The howling is through

So I reach for her hand and her eyes turns to poison
And her hair turns to splinters,
And her flesh turns to brine
She leaps cross the room, she stands in the window
And screams that my first-born
Will surely be blind

She throws herself out to the black of the nightfall
She's parted her lips
But she makes not a sound
I fly down the stairway, and I run to the garden
No trace of my true love
Is there to be found

So walk these hills lightly, and watch who you're lovin'
By mother the mountain
I swear that it's true
Love not a woman with hair black as midnight
And her dress made of satin
All shimmering blue

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[Andalbanon]

@JusAMinorThreat You're a major fool.

[Andalbanon]

I can't thank you enough!

This is probably the best cover of "Our Mother the Mountain." 5 Stars!

[mynd618]

I absolutely love your music Dax. Originals or covers, you are one of my all time favorite musicians and I have been following your music since your Golgotha days. But wow this was really bad. This is my favorite Townes song. From the sound of this I wonder if you have ever even heard Townes perform this song? That was really disappointing coming from you. I'm sure you were just having a bad night or something though...

[espacho]

Dax introduced me to Townes Van Zandt. Good stuff.

[deadaquarius]

oh god this is so bad haha

[braddfield]

freakin sweet

[evilred88]

One of my fav Dax covers! Classic!! 

[JusAMinorThreat]

this cover is terrible