[dcab-l] Bill Grant & Delia Bell Cover: "Pennsylvania Mountain Home"

Songwriters & Music Lovers:

 

Here is another cover of Bill Grant and Delia Bell duet from Oklahoma's Kiamichi Mountains.

This song appeared on their 1^st album: My Kiamichi Mountain Home, produced as Kiamichi

KMB 101, and released in 1976.  (The name Kiamichi comes from a nearby Choctaw Indian

village called Caddo, and is thought to mean “noisy bird,” perhaps in reference to nearby large

population of woodpeckers.)  Bill Grant himself was mostly Choctaw.

 

For Rattlesnake Hill, I simply replaced " Kiamichi” with "Pennsylvania", my home state name.

Before recording this cut, I called Bill Grant himself and requested his permission to use his

song (with a 1-word change), and he kindly agreed.

 

Rattlesnake Hill musicians:

 

Carolyn Kellock      Bass

Heather Twigg        Fiddle & Harmony

Kevin Conroy          Lead Guitar

Jack Sanbower       Banjo

Ed Schaeffer          Guitar & Vocals

 

To listen, click:  http://rattlesnakehill.org/Web_Music/edsmusic.html

 

Ed

                    Pennsylvania Mountain Home

 

I’ve been a lot of places, I’ve seen all kind of things

Done a lot of travelin’ in my time

I never seen a wonder, I learned to love so well

As that Pennsylvania mountain home of mine

 

Chorus:      I’m goin back home to my Pennsylvania mountains

That hillbilly mountain gal of mine

Take her in my arms and tell her I never more shall roam

From that Pennsylvania mountain home of mine

 

Over hills and through the valleys I roamed as just a lad

Where the wind blows a song through the pines

And the sparklin’ water tumbles through the meadows wide and green

In that Pennsylvania mountain home of mine

 

Chorus:

 

It was there that I found her in a cabin on the hill

Vowed in my heart to make her mine

I courted, I won her, I stole her heart away

To that Pennsylvania mountain home of mine

 

Chorus: