I met Ben on the glen highway I happened to pull over to pick up a hitch hiker on my way out to homer Alaska. It was him. I already knew his music at that point and he wasn't to well known. I feel like he's one of the greatest country singers in our generation and actually brings credibility back to the genre in a way he reminds me of Waylon Jennings. We sang every word Hank Williams ever wrote on that car ride. Ben is a man that carries himself with honor and stands by his word for that he has my respect. Good luck to you brother.
Im a country boy from Tennessee. After I got out of the army, I lived in DC for a handful of years. In my building I had a roommate from Ireland. We drank alot, and we learned that southern Appalachia music and old irish music is the same thing. My name is boswell and I've been told it's Scottish.
I showed this to my grandfather. His father died in a mine when he was just a boy. He appreciated this work of art and said that it’s one of the greatest tributes to the Appalachia’s that he’s ever heard. I wish we had more music like this
I got a banjo because of this song, I've nearly got it down now, god bless Benjamin Todd and all his friends and family, he doesn't have a fraction of the recognition that he deserves
Oh dad as I sit in this old abandoned house I took over after u died here on this off grid Mesa where only the strong survive but to come here at 83 u knew it was over soon for u but saw this was my place to live as we Ben homless since I was born
Although I am no miner, this song resonates strangly within me. I live on the countryside of Austria, not far off from our capitol Vienna. When I was young I stretched out to people of my age I considered full of potential. Potential regarding intellect, potential regarding humanity and potential regarding character. They followed the call of the city, just like I did. Most of us went to university. The difference: I neglected the importance of an academic title and I still do. Virtue and experience seemed like it was enough for itself. So I cancelled university and returned. Now I work in a gas station, like a gem common people do perceive me, they respect my character, yet, I feel like I lost my social roots. I have new friends and they enrich my life, don`t get me wrong. Nevertheless Somehow I feel left alone, a stranger in a familiar place. I roam the forests up the hills beyond the paths, I hike up the mountains. I confronted wild goats, I explored caves, I walked alongside forest creeks, which are so peaceful, no words can tell, I invaded ruins of castles from the Middle Ages, I stood on top of a plateau, underneath me an endless sea of clouds. I am 35 now and I feel alone with the conscious connectivity I have with my home area. I will die on these mountains, they are my home.
Well spoken. I'm a retired teacher, many years on the front lines with the youth of America. Have always loved this song. Our country is now fragmented and outraged, injustice and bitterness everywhere in the streets of our cities and towns, and in the media. The mountain, the river, and the prairie continue to be my salvation.
GhostofNr9 as I read this i read it as the words of a great song you just need someone to make the melody for it . but doesn't a great story always make a song ✌
Love this dudes soul.... His story is that of triumph. A fellow addict who turned that pain into great music,using again is one of the most honest and hard hitting songs of addiction I've ever heard.... Fucking awesome that he road cross country on a boxcar where he met a fellow boxcar rider.She ended up being his wife and now they play music together...I can't think of anything more perfect than that right there....fucking inspiring,keep on winning brother I'm happy for you...finally I'm sober and I may have even found my boxcar woman..life is beautiful... I wish the best for all my fellow addicts and non addicts as well but if your one of the former please don't give up,go to the doctor,get diagnosed,99% of the time drug use is self medicating in one form or the other...I killed myself for 17 years cause I had undiagnosed bipolar,depression,ptsd, and the whole time I could have been on meds and have a way better life... Not saying everyone needs to be on meds but I'd say alot would benefit from them,either way just knowing what's caused these feelings and thought patterns I've had all this time helps to feel better...Raise awareness for mental health issues! We are all into this together,I wish everyone could see that...
Everything Ben touches is overwhelming I'd hate to lose that feeling you get with little known artist, like they belong to you, but if society has any taste left he deserves to be as big as Dylan.
The only reason dylan got big was because it was the 60s and the people listening to him were doing drugs. By the time most of them stopped the drugs, his ill-deserved popularity had already been established. Otherwise he would have made it as a song writer ONLY. I can sing better than bob dylan, my momma said so.
I'm two generations removed from being "born on this mountain" of rural Appalachia but I can almost feel my heritage in my blood hearing a song like this.
I feel the same!! Took me back to my last summer spent there as a teen…shin digs on the green. I was born there, then at the age of two, I was raised inSo Cal
@@Renagadebait I was born in nky, have lived in Central IN for 32 years. Its flat. Yet I still enjoy this and tins of other music about areas I'll never see. ✌️
@@jonyates3918 I live in some epic mountain ranges , even though the song isn't about my mountains in the west and not coal mountains in the east , same shit you don't have to have a mountain you just have to have some kind of wild nature that you make your mountain.
Artisanal Violence my pappaw was a miner in East Tennessee, we were one of the first settlers in Cades Cove and our family is a long line of miners/hillbillies. This song moves me to tears every time I hear it because I think of my pap. You have a beautiful angel looking over you, as do I. Many blessings to you🤙🏻
I'm doing all the utility line maintenance in cades cove and Townsend area right now like literally this minute and I'm a hillbilly of many generations myself I used to think coal fed my family and myself but daddy corrected me just this past weekend we rode down to Savannah Georgia to visit family and just me and the ol man runnin round together, but on the ride back home I always feel a WAY I can't explain when my feet get back above sea level when this song came on I noticed my haggard ol man was a little teary and it made....well ya know but either way he then let me know how important the mountains are to people like us and it's what gives us the life we live not the coal. Sorry for carrying on had to get that out some how, thanks folks. I love all y'all
singers that actually sing of the old days, the land, and the people, are what country needs back, this was beautiful, the pioneers and settlers would be proud.
i want them to play gism - nih nightmare to be played on repeat... why? cause ive got a very low iq and i want it to be reflected in death as much as it did while i was alive
This kid is ridiculous... Everything that he's involved in on here is utterly amazing. I have a trainhopping buddy that turned me on, and the shit's so good, so pervasive... such that I am waking up in the middle of the night with his tunes in my head.
I grew up listening to rap and heavy metal, along with a few other genres….except country. I don’t know how I came across this, but I was instantly a fan!! This song and “Using Again” speak to my soul!! Thank God for GOOD MUSIC!! Like Bob Marley said “one good thing about music is, when it hits you feel no pain”!!
Check out Ryan Bingham, Chris Knight, Robert Earl King, Greensky Bluegrass, Dalton Domino, Steve Earle, Zach Bryan, The Wood Brothers, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Charlie Robison, The Great Divide.
The stuff the radio and most folks call country just isn’t. It’s a pop culture bastardization dumbed down for the masses. True “country” speaks to everyone because it’s an honest expression of the human experience.
This will always be one of the best covers ever done. He took a great song and not only made it his own but greatly improved on it. It wakes something up deep inside and brings it to the surface to breathe fresh air.
Wow, that's a great way to put it. Most cover songs (any genre) just don't serve the nickel like they should, but rest assured, Ben here absolutely hit the nail on the head with this one. A wonderful, beautiful take on a great tune. God bless you and your loved ones. Spread love onward 🙏❤
They are going to tear out the pines near my home, where my trapline is. The construction of a bridge caused the drowning of my fathers wildrice patch... Soon the uranium mines (Where i once worked underground for Boartlong year) which house tailings ponds leak and contaminate the wildlife. That river raised my grandfather, father & me, thats my home. Breaks my heart
This is without doubt the greatest version of this song ever recorded. Thank you gems and thank you Benjamin. I’ve always been a rock guy but I heard a charley Crockett song one day and it set me on a country journey. I’ve discovered so many amazing artist from sierra farrell, the hill country devil, Ian noe, and the lost dog street band. I can’t even begin to say what all of this music means to me. It’s like something has been missing in my soul all along and now I’ve found it. I cannot express how much I love this real and true country music, none of this lifted trucks and mud boggin bullshit that’s called country now but the real thing. I wish this is what was on the CMT awards because every single artist on gems and western AF deserves so much more than any “country” artist on the radio.
We're all here with you bud, don't worry if no one around you is into it. Be happy you get to feel something as real as this song and carry it around with you like a warm secret in your heart.
19 days clean and just hit full blown withdrawals. Only thing that gets me out of my head and this fucking bed is your words. I'm a thousand miles from the mountains this flat land has no healing like the porch of my birth home. Thank you Ben for your gift of healing.
Im born and raised Long Island… still very thankful for my father taking me up to the Catskills.. in my head “this mountain is my home” is my concepts, morals & values. God bless guys
Definitely. As a colorado kid i identify with this even though we dont have the same type of mines and our mining history and conditions and cultures differed a mountain home is a mountain home. Tennessee Kentucky or Colorado :0)
@@PGTRegard i was trying to tread lightly, not keep score, and not cite our struggles, as they had far more ocurrences than we did, simply because they had more mines and more companies, but in doing so i still offended. Sorry to those who suffered at the hands of mining industry, regardless of where theyre at.
You were the music that me, my brother, and his pops listened to. Til his pops died and we split for college and haven’t really seen each other since. But your music. It brings back to when we were all together. It’s nice. I don’t drink to it anymore though.
I was born on this mountain A long time ago Before they knocked down the timber And strip-mined the coal When you rose in the mornin' Before it was light To go down in that dark hole And come back up at night I was born on this mountain This mountain's my home She holds me and keeps me From worry and woe Well, they took everything that she gave Now they're gone But I'll die on this mountain This mountain's my home I was young on this mountain But now I am old And I knew every holler Every cool swimmin' hole 'Til one night I lay down And woke up to find That my childhood was over And I went down in the mine I was born on this mountain This mountain's my home She holds me and keeps me From worry and woe Well, they took everything that she gave Now they're gone But I'll die on this mountain This mountain's my home There's a hole in this mountain It's dark and it's deep And God only knows All the secrets it keeps There's a chill in the air Only miners can feel There're ghosts in the tunnels That the company sealed I was born on this mountain This mountain's my home She holds me and keeps me From worry and woe Well, they took everything that she gave Now they're gone But I'll die on this mountain This mountain's my home
This man should be considered a national treasure. The girl who does his violin, a national idol. Both of them together are keeping something sweet and nostalgic about America both current and pure.
*LYRICS*, *Steve Earle* and the *Del McCoury Band* - *The Mountain* performed by *Benjamin Tod* of *Lost Dog* street band. Enjoy. *V. V. V. V.* *&I was born on this mountain a long time ago.* *Before they knocked down the timber and strip-mined the coal.* *And you woke up in the mornin' before it was light.* *And you go down in that dark hole and come back at night.* *&I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home.* *And she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.* *And now they took everything that she gave, now they're gone.* *But I will die on this mountain, this mountain's my home.* *And I was young on this mountain but now I am old.* *And I knew every holler, and cool swimmin' hole.* *'til one night I lay down and woke up to find.* *That my childhood was over and went down in the mine.* *&I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home.* *And she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.* *And now they took everything that she gave, now they're gone.* *But I will die on this mountain, this mountain's my home.* *&There's a hole in this mountain, it's dark and it's deep.* *Oh the lord only knows all the secrets it keeps.* *There's a chill in the air only miners can feel.* *&There are ghosts in the tunnels that the company sealed.* *&I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home.* *And she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.* *And now they took everything that she gave, now they're gone.* *But I will die on this mountain, this mountain's my home.*
I’ve literally listened to this song hundreds of times while TH-cam was in the background. Today is the first time I happened to glance at the video and I was like “Hey, I know that place! Hey, that’s the Wyoming State capital!” I’m originally from Cheyenne, Wyoming. So, seeing this was filmed all around my hometown made me happy and home sick all at once. I think I’ve watched the video like 5 times today!
This song always reminds me of where I grew up, generator, well water, garden, being out in the cuts, on the land I grew up on. 8 miles from the nearest town has humbled me over the years. Santa Cruz mountains for life!
Been years since I stumbled upon this Diamond but it still reminds me of Home. Being a boy running through the trees and brambles in some unknown stranger's patch of woods with a brother I've lost since then.
I totally agree! This song fits with my religion and my heritage. No matter where I roam or live, when I return to the WV mountains that is exactly how I feel. my mom and my brother feel the same way. Settlers for over 200 years spanning a few mountains - our DNA lives in the plants, animals, and trees.
I agree with you're comment 100 percent man. Just found this video today and I'm already in love with Benjamin Tod. This song especially, done by him, moves me tears.
I love this song very much. I grew up in Lebanon, PA which is in-between the blue ridge and Appalachian spine. It was a 20 minute drive north or south to get into the mountains where I spent a lot of time in my youth. 10 years later I live in NE Minnesota where we have a few mountains, but more lake, swamp, and rolling hills. I miss the eastern mountains alot but I still feel it in my bones living up here.
Legend, I promise you. He moves your very core. I've sat on the feet of the devil and bartered for my soul. Addictions are the purist form of test to find out what you're truly made of.
Started a playlist for my newborn at night. Now at 3 weeks old we have to play this song and September doves before she will go to sleep and it’s almost immediate! Craziest thing I’ve ever seen. She already has a favorite artist.
Both grandfathers of mine were coal miners, and one then became a trucker. This song pulls something of my heritage out of me. Some people just won't experience having "a mountain"
I'm sure he can Elizabeth, I truly believe music resides inside our spirit it's one of the things we can carry on to the next part of our journey. R.I.P Jacob. I hope you and yours manage to find some healing and solace. From Ireland with love.😬
Lyrics: I was born on this mountain A long time ago Before they knocked down the timber And strip-mined the coal When you rose in the mornin' Before it was light To go down in that dark hole And come back up at night I was born on this mountain This mountain's my home She holds me and keeps me From worry and woe Well, they took everything that she gave Now they're gone But I'll die on this mountain This mountain's my home I was young on this mountain But now I am old And I knew every holler Every cool swimmin' hole 'Til one night I lay down And woke up to find That my childhood was over And I went down in the mine I was born on this mountain This mountain's my home She holds me and keeps me From worry and woe Well, they took everything that she gave Now they're gone But I'll die on this mountain This mountain's my home There's a hole in this mountain It's dark and it's deep And God only knows All the secrets it keeps There's a chill in the air Only miners can feel There're ghosts in the tunnels That the company sealed I was born on this mountain This mountain's my home She holds me and keeps me From worry and woe Well, they took everything that she gave Now they're gone But I'll die on this mountain This mountain's my home
This guy is great! It reminds me of how the people of the Appalachians, The Blue Ridge, Smoky Mountains, and others used to sing. The old Scottish-Irish ballad songs. I'm glad to see it revived...that type of singing and music has an audience in the waiting. ❤
Driven around the Dublin Wicklow mountains working today and this beautiful song just made me feel free at peace I could of died rite there with no regrets 🙌🏼🇺🇸🇮🇪❤✌
I've literally listened to this song 30 times today and it's made me cry evenrytime. I'm not a miner but when he talks about the mountain I replace the meaning with the love of my life. Every time hes says it it breaks me down to my soul...this song is my stone rn while I cant be with her. Makes me think of all of our good times and times to come. Thank you for this song. I felt lost till I found it.
Thank ALL of you for the Authenticity. All of your music is amazing! It can make me feel whole even in the most questionable of times.. Your music kept me going! Thank you for being YOU and dont ever stop!!!
Have you heard Levon Helm's version? Ben's is amazing, but Levon's is just pure perfection. Sounds like it's being sung by an old-timer who spent his whole life mining coal in West Virginia.
This song reminds me of home .. one of these days I'll go back. Almost doubt they'd even take me back... Hopefully one day I'll be buried up by my grandpa, on our mountain... After he died, I left an haven't been able to go back for more than a few days at a time because there's too many memories. If my grandpa could see me now he'd be so disappointed with what I've become... One day ill go home for good .. until then I'm gonna keep traveling because I can't stay in one place for too long. Thank you Benjamin Todd for everything. Your music helped me in my addiction, an helps me now that I'm sober. I've been listening to these songs for years an honestly I don't know where I'd be if I hadn't clicked that first video.
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Don't compare. Does no good. Steve wrote it and still sings it best but Leon's shortened version is great as well. This one is good as well but the vocal is pretty flat.
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I met Ben on the glen highway I happened to pull over to pick up a hitch hiker on my way out to homer Alaska. It was him. I already knew his music at that point and he wasn't to well known. I feel like he's one of the greatest country singers in our generation and actually brings credibility back to the genre in a way he reminds me of Waylon Jennings. We sang every word Hank Williams ever wrote on that car ride. Ben is a man that carries himself with honor and stands by his word for that he has my respect. Good luck to you brother.
Ben is my good friend, just asked him about this and he said he doesn't remember such a thing
folk singer?
@@oFLUXo680 Ben is with my right now, iv just asked him, he doesn’t know you
@@27walker27 lies. Ben is my brother, he said he’s never heard of any of you or your made up stories
@@FEEFS. 😅
The only song that settles my 5 week old daughter down,thank you for the beautiful music from Scotland
Im a country boy from Tennessee. After I got out of the army, I lived in DC for a handful of years. In my building I had a roommate from Ireland. We drank alot, and we learned that southern Appalachia music and old irish music is the same thing. My name is boswell and I've been told it's Scottish.
love this. Bonnie
I showed this to my grandfather. His father died in a mine when he was just a boy. He appreciated this work of art and said that it’s one of the greatest tributes to the Appalachia’s that he’s ever heard. I wish we had more music like this
Seems like you gotta go there to find it but I would like the convenience of digital stuff too
Steve Earle recorded this a long time ago, surprised he never heard it until recent.
We are still making it a life style!
Damn. That’s real
I wish we had more of your grandad's generation around. I miss mine.
I must be responsible for about a thousand of these views at this stage. Cracking version.
Same here, I listen to this at least 3 times a day! Lol
Same
I would not be far behind you mate
Yes sir
Same 😂👍
I ain't even a miner, not even from the u.s. but I grew up in the bush in Australia and boy does this song mean something to me
I will be the #1 listener to this recoding this year
I got a banjo because of this song, I've nearly got it down now, god bless Benjamin Todd and all his friends and family, he doesn't have a fraction of the recognition that he deserves
What’s the chord progression?
Bits really good innit
Please post and show us.
Me too! Inspired me to sing as well.
Chords can be found on youtube.
Damn good thing he’s still going!!!
Oh dad as I sit in this old abandoned house I took over after u died here on this off grid Mesa where only the strong survive but to come here at 83 u knew it was over soon for u but saw this was my place to live as we Ben homless since I was born
There's no sound on Earth more beautiful than a banjo and a mountain voice.
👍🎶🎵👍
Although I am no miner, this song resonates strangly within me. I live on the countryside of Austria, not far off from our capitol Vienna. When I was young I stretched out to people of my age I considered full of potential. Potential regarding intellect, potential regarding humanity and potential regarding character. They followed the call of the city, just like I did. Most of us went to university. The difference: I neglected the importance of an academic title and I still do. Virtue and experience seemed like it was enough for itself. So I cancelled university and returned. Now I work in a gas station, like a gem common people do perceive me, they respect my character, yet, I feel like I lost my social roots. I have new friends and they enrich my life, don`t get me wrong. Nevertheless Somehow I feel left alone, a stranger in a familiar place. I roam the forests up the hills beyond the paths, I hike up the mountains. I confronted wild goats, I explored caves, I walked alongside forest creeks, which are so peaceful, no words can tell, I invaded ruins of castles from the Middle Ages, I stood on top of a plateau, underneath me an endless sea of clouds. I am 35 now and I feel alone with the conscious connectivity I have with my home area. I will die on these mountains, they are my home.
Then explore them with someone no, yeah? That might change. That might change.
Well spoken. I'm a retired teacher, many years on the front lines with the youth of America. Have always loved this song. Our country is now fragmented and outraged, injustice and bitterness everywhere in the streets of our cities and towns, and in the media. The mountain, the river, and the prairie continue to be my salvation.
GhostofNr9
as I read this i read it as the words of a great song you just need someone to make the melody for it . but doesn't a great story always make a song ✌
"Happiness is only real, when shared."- (Chris mcCandless) This quote has resonated with me ever since reading the book.
Beautifully written my friend. We are kindred spirits - brethren in soul perhaps.
Been a while since a song brought me to tears...1:30 AM lot of beer...sad cowboy hours
yee haw brother
I was too until I got sober, drinking and jamming to music, crying and laughing and forgetting
not a pleasant existence
@@ffxiarcadiushorrible existence. Quiet desperation hidden behind others soundtracks.
Hauntingly beautiful...
Love this dudes soul....
His story is that of triumph.
A fellow addict who turned that pain into great music,using again is one of the most honest and hard hitting songs of addiction I've ever heard....
Fucking awesome that he road cross country on a boxcar where he met a fellow boxcar rider.She ended up being his wife and now they play music together...I can't think of anything more perfect than that right there....fucking inspiring,keep on winning brother I'm happy for you...finally I'm sober and I may have even found my boxcar woman..life is beautiful...
I wish the best for all my fellow addicts and non addicts as well but if your one of the former please don't give up,go to the doctor,get diagnosed,99% of the time drug use is self medicating in one form or the other...I killed myself for 17 years cause I had undiagnosed bipolar,depression,ptsd, and the whole time I could have been on meds and have a way better life...
Not saying everyone needs to be on meds but I'd say alot would benefit from them,either way just knowing what's caused these feelings and thought patterns I've had all this time helps to feel better...Raise awareness for mental health issues!
We are all into this together,I wish everyone could see that...
Damn, gld I stumbled upon this.
2 folk that belong in the songwriting Hall of fame.
I said it, and I fkn mean it.
Only time will tell.
On a train, in the rain. Where ever I may be. I hope I’m who I wished I’d be!
A cold , windy , wet ride, I still wouldn't trade it for a million dollars.
Everything Ben touches is overwhelming I'd hate to lose that feeling you get with little known artist, like they belong to you, but if society has any taste left he deserves to be as big as Dylan.
Mark Kapsalis if i could clip bob Dylan's vocal chords i would. Pure poetry though.
Lol if you love them let them go! Just discovered him and very glad I did. Don’t worry - secret’s safe!
...for now!
I know what you mean. But there are 15 year olds right now discovering Led Zeppelin like it was the first time anyone had ever heard it before.
Hateful Tens hipster
The only reason dylan got big was because it was the 60s and the people listening to him were doing drugs. By the time most of them stopped the drugs, his ill-deserved popularity had already been established. Otherwise he would have made it as a song writer ONLY. I can sing better than bob dylan, my momma said so.
I'm two generations removed from being "born on this mountain" of rural Appalachia but I can almost feel my heritage in my blood hearing a song like this.
This is in anyone's heritage that grew up on a mountain, long as your nit a flat lander this songs for you
Two generations removed doesn’t mean a thing. Just sounds like you need to come home.
I feel the same!! Took me back to my last summer spent there as a teen…shin digs on the green. I was born there, then at the age of two, I was raised inSo Cal
@@Renagadebait I was born in nky, have lived in Central IN for 32 years. Its flat.
Yet I still enjoy this and tins of other music about areas I'll never see. ✌️
@@jonyates3918 I live in some epic mountain ranges , even though the song isn't about my mountains in the west and not coal mountains in the east , same shit you don't have to have a mountain you just have to have some kind of wild nature that you make your mountain.
we played this song at my dad's funeral. it reminds me so much of him, growing up in northeast tennessee.
Artisanal Violence my pappaw was a miner in East Tennessee, we were one of the first settlers in Cades Cove and our family is a long line of miners/hillbillies. This song moves me to tears every time I hear it because I think of my pap. You have a beautiful angel looking over you, as do I. Many blessings to you🤙🏻
good stuff brother.
I'm doing all the utility line maintenance in cades cove and Townsend area right now like literally this minute and I'm a hillbilly of many generations myself I used to think coal fed my family and myself but daddy corrected me just this past weekend we rode down to Savannah Georgia to visit family and just me and the ol man runnin round together, but on the ride back home I always feel a WAY I can't explain when my feet get back above sea level when this song came on I noticed my haggard ol man was a little teary and it made....well ya know but either way he then let me know how important the mountains are to people like us and it's what gives us the life we live not the coal. Sorry for carrying on had to get that out some how, thanks folks. I love all y'all
Brandon Little I live in Savannah !
Love TN I lived in oak ridge the gap and Knox. Great people there. I'm a Kentucky boy
I don’t know why this song makes me cry. Well done Benjamin Tod
It hits the soul
Just tuned my banjo, plucking it for the first time right now. I am young on this mountain :) One day I'll be old
singers that actually sing of the old days, the land, and the people, are what country needs back, this was beautiful, the pioneers and settlers would be proud.
bens music is what I want played at my funeral
I want tom waits rossie to be the last song before wat ever
i want them to play gism - nih nightmare to be played on repeat... why? cause ive got a very low iq and i want it to be reflected in death as much as it did while i was alive
amen 2 tht
Let's give this mountain the gift of 10 million
I would be truly pressed to think of a song that Ben sings that I don't like , he's truly talented to the core ❤
Till one nigh I lay down and woke up to find that my childhood was over and went down the mine. Hits us all, the loss of innocence.
One night I lay down and woke up to find that my childhood was over and I went down in the mine
Explains adulthood perfectly
This kid is ridiculous... Everything that he's involved in on here is utterly amazing. I have a trainhopping buddy that turned me on, and the shit's so good, so pervasive... such that I am waking up in the middle of the night with his tunes in my head.
Rick Wright me too
Rick Wright u are spot on as if you are me. Which blows my mind cause my name is Rick wright too
Rick Wright fa
Rick Wright you don't know what it's like to mine? he never got to. he's a tramp. just like me, but I'm in a mine for two years
Train hopping guys turn you on?
This song touches every single Appalachian. Honestly tears me up
Just saw Benjamin and Lost Dog Street Band in Portland Maine. This song played live made my night.
I grew up listening to rap and heavy metal, along with a few other genres….except country. I don’t know how I came across this, but I was instantly a fan!! This song and “Using Again” speak to my soul!! Thank God for GOOD MUSIC!! Like Bob Marley said “one good thing about music is, when it hits you feel no pain”!!
Facts
Check out Ryan Bingham, Chris Knight, Robert Earl King, Greensky Bluegrass, Dalton Domino, Steve Earle, Zach Bryan, The Wood Brothers, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Charlie Robison, The Great Divide.
@@thesumeriangod5421 I will, Some of them sound familiar. Thanks!!
The stuff the radio and most folks call country just isn’t. It’s a pop culture bastardization dumbed down for the masses. True “country” speaks to everyone because it’s an honest expression of the human experience.
Amen bro
This will always be one of the best covers ever done. He took a great song and not only made it his own but greatly improved on it. It wakes something up deep inside and brings it to the surface to breathe fresh air.
Jedi Day great version, but it is not his own. It still belongs to Steve and Del
Wow, that's a great way to put it. Most cover songs (any genre) just don't serve the nickel like they should, but rest assured, Ben here absolutely hit the nail on the head with this one. A wonderful, beautiful take on a great tune.
God bless you and your loved ones. Spread love onward 🙏❤
Hear Levon Helm sing it. Seriously.
Ya great rendition
This is a great cover but it doesn't have anything on the original.
Amazing. I love benjamin man... His music has helped me throught getting off the needle.
Same brother
What’s up brother him and maintenance medicine has helped me also. God bless you. I know how strong you are. I will pray for you.
Good on ya keep up the good fight
Atta boy, Josh! I know we don't know each other, but I am proud of you.
Keep going Josh. One day at a time.
My daddy loved this. That's the finest god damn compliment I could muster.
As fine a compliment as could be asked of anyone. To your daddy!
Lana Del Ayyyye Damm straight
Big fan of the banner
Masterpiece!
I been listening a long time my friend. Keep it strumming... Oi
"I will die on this mountain, this mountains my home"
currently a sailor, but I am longing to get back to my mountains soon
Same, stationed 8000 miles away from my mountain.
@@bluewatersnipe2227 Cheers man, stay safe
12 years in. I feel ya, shipmate.
Looking to leave my mountain to join the navy here soon. Stay safe.
Amen
They are going to tear out the pines near my home, where my trapline is. The construction of a bridge caused the drowning of my fathers wildrice patch... Soon the uranium mines (Where i once worked underground for Boartlong year) which house tailings ponds leak and contaminate the wildlife. That river raised my grandfather, father & me, thats my home. Breaks my heart
The unfortunate cost of "progress" and economic development. Companies only care about profits not what they do to people's lives and the environment.
You my friend need to bring on the boogaloo. Don't let tyrants strip what's yours
@@loganschubert6781 Yikes. Bet you believe the Confederate flag is "heritage".
Cody Clark Bet you’re a book burner.
Burn their equipment. Sabatoge them. Dont go quiet
This is without doubt the greatest version of this song ever recorded.
Thank you gems and thank you Benjamin. I’ve always been a rock guy but I heard a charley Crockett song one day and it set me on a country journey. I’ve discovered so many amazing artist from sierra farrell, the hill country devil, Ian noe, and the lost dog street band. I can’t even begin to say what all of this music means to me. It’s like something has been missing in my soul all along and now I’ve found it. I cannot express how much I love this real and true country music, none of this lifted trucks and mud boggin bullshit that’s called country now but the real thing. I wish this is what was on the CMT awards because every single artist on gems and western AF deserves so much more than any “country” artist on the radio.
Add Matt Heckler to that list if he isn't already on it
Idk, I've always been partial to Levon Helm's version...more haunting..
357 string band; black river blues is what got me down a path to this song.
Benjamin is something truly unique and I hope he feels appreciated.
It is amazing how a song can make your soul hurt for a time and place you have never known.
I wish I had someone in my life that loves this music as much as myself...
We're all here with you bud, don't worry if no one around you is into it. Be happy you get to feel something as real as this song and carry it around with you like a warm secret in your heart.
Yeah dude we feel you
Were here man we love you too brother man!
i wrote in my tinder profile: would love to share country music with you
but that didnt work
Same..
19 days clean and just hit full blown withdrawals. Only thing that gets me out of my head and this fucking bed is your words. I'm a thousand miles from the mountains this flat land has no healing like the porch of my birth home. Thank you Ben for your gift of healing.
Hang in there brother. We were put here to suffer and to blossom. Sometimes a little sometimes a lot. 19 days is huge. Keep pushing.
Im born and raised Long Island… still very thankful for my father taking me up to the Catskills.. in my head “this mountain is my home” is my concepts, morals & values. God bless guys
As much as I love Steve and his music, this is my favorite version of this song. Without question.
It's a close second to Levon Helm for me. His version is just pure perfection.
This song has not gotten old since I've been listening to it five years ago. At least once a month I'll listen to the song.
he has another version, th-cam.com/video/2ZvER7EIuo4/w-d-xo.html ...just in case you haven't seen it yet 👍
He made it way more Appalachia than Steve Earls versions...
Brian Friend yup
appalachia is home and I dont mind it slightly
Definitely. As a colorado kid i identify with this even though we dont have the same type of mines and our mining history and conditions and cultures differed a mountain home is a mountain home. Tennessee Kentucky or Colorado :0)
@@miguelmarquez4192 Oh I don't know, the Coalfield War seems like it could be at home in Appalachia despite the fact it happened in Las Animas County.
@@PGTRegard i was trying to tread lightly, not keep score, and not cite our struggles, as they had far more ocurrences than we did, simply because they had more mines and more companies, but in doing so i still offended. Sorry to those who suffered at the hands of mining industry, regardless of where theyre at.
You were the music that me, my brother, and his pops listened to. Til his pops died and we split for college and haven’t really seen each other since. But your music. It brings back to when we were all together. It’s nice. I don’t drink to it anymore though.
I’m an Irish French man and I wish my pap was alive to hear this Benjamin i was addicted to drugs and alcohol and in feel his pain in his music
I was born on this mountain
A long time ago
Before they knocked down the timber
And strip-mined the coal
When you rose in the mornin'
Before it was light
To go down in that dark hole
And come back up at night
I was born on this mountain
This mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me
From worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave
Now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain
This mountain's my home
I was young on this mountain
But now I am old
And I knew every holler
Every cool swimmin' hole
'Til one night I lay down
And woke up to find
That my childhood was over
And I went down in the mine
I was born on this mountain
This mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me
From worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave
Now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain
This mountain's my home
There's a hole in this mountain
It's dark and it's deep
And God only knows
All the secrets it keeps
There's a chill in the air
Only miners can feel
There're ghosts in the tunnels
That the company sealed
I was born on this mountain
This mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me
From worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave
Now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain
This mountain's my home
This guy is one of a kind I can’t see anyone imitating him in no way at all. He makes me feel that I’m right there living every word in that song .
Oliver Anthony does a pretty decent job at it
This man should be considered a national treasure. The girl who does his violin, a national idol. Both of them together are keeping something sweet and nostalgic about America both current and pure.
His wife
Viddle
Family comes from appleachia originally. I’ve heard the stories but never lived there. This song makes me nostalgic for a life I never lived.
Hiraeth
@@veritas3683 that's the word i was looking for
I am now 100% postive the new wave in Music. Is Country & Bluegrass not Rock anymore! Bring it on home everyone!
Rock lost touch with the every day working person long ago. Some country and most bluegrass still keeps that connection.
*LYRICS*, *Steve Earle* and the *Del McCoury Band* - *The Mountain* performed by *Benjamin Tod* of *Lost Dog* street band.
Enjoy. *V. V. V. V.*
*&I was born on this mountain a long time ago.*
*Before they knocked down the timber and strip-mined the coal.*
*And you woke up in the mornin' before it was light.*
*And you go down in that dark hole and come back at night.*
*&I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home.*
*And she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.*
*And now they took everything that she gave, now they're gone.*
*But I will die on this mountain, this mountain's my home.*
*And I was young on this mountain but now I am old.*
*And I knew every holler, and cool swimmin' hole.*
*'til one night I lay down and woke up to find.*
*That my childhood was over and went down in the mine.*
*&I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home.*
*And she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.*
*And now they took everything that she gave, now they're gone.*
*But I will die on this mountain, this mountain's my home.*
*&There's a hole in this mountain, it's dark and it's deep.*
*Oh the lord only knows all the secrets it keeps.*
*There's a chill in the air only miners can feel.*
*&There are ghosts in the tunnels that the company sealed.*
*&I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home.*
*And she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.*
*And now they took everything that she gave, now they're gone.*
*But I will die on this mountain, this mountain's my home.*
I'M HAPPY :)
@Industrial Prostitute He is the best best voice on this side of Tom Russell!!
Chords??
@@Barak911777 4 counts of G then Em then 1 count of G Am(walk up) C and end on 4 of Em
I’ve literally listened to this song hundreds of times while TH-cam was in the background. Today is the first time I happened to glance at the video and I was like “Hey, I know that place! Hey, that’s the Wyoming State capital!” I’m originally from Cheyenne, Wyoming. So, seeing this was filmed all around my hometown made me happy and home sick all at once. I think I’ve watched the video like 5 times today!
This song always reminds me of where I grew up, generator, well water, garden, being out in the cuts, on the land I grew up on. 8 miles from the nearest town has humbled me over the years. Santa Cruz mountains for life!
Been years since I stumbled upon this Diamond but it still reminds me of Home. Being a boy running through the trees and brambles in some unknown stranger's patch of woods with a brother I've lost since then.
I'm from the plains, only been to an actual mountain once in my life yet this comforts me in a way not much else does
Man I love this. I'm a grown man and it moves me to tears. Killing the vocals. You pour so much emotion and heart into this.
BlackKnight 0814 I am a 50 year old man and feel the same. He is one of a kind.
i back that up. every single time man.
I totally agree! This song fits with my religion and my heritage. No matter where I roam or live, when I return to the WV mountains that is exactly how I feel. my mom and my brother feel the same way. Settlers for over 200 years spanning a few mountains - our DNA lives in the plants, animals, and trees.
I agree with you're comment 100 percent man. Just found this video today and I'm already in love with Benjamin Tod. This song especially, done by him, moves me tears.
I'm 27, me too.
I worked in the deep nickel mines in northern Ontario and man the way Ben plays this, i just have any words to describe it.
I love this song very much. I grew up in Lebanon, PA which is in-between the blue ridge and Appalachian spine. It was a 20 minute drive north or south to get into the mountains where I spent a lot of time in my youth. 10 years later I live in NE Minnesota where we have a few mountains, but more lake, swamp, and rolling hills. I miss the eastern mountains alot but I still feel it in my bones living up here.
Don't you miss the bologna?!
It's good to know that even though I lost almost everything, Benjamin Todd is still here to guide me through. Found my music again
I either cry or sing my soul out every time I listen to this.
I’ve been listening to this for 5 year. One of the best covers I’ve ever heard
This is a POWERFUL song! Why have I never heard of this man before?!!!!
Love this group
Legend, I promise you. He moves your very core. I've sat on the feet of the devil and bartered for my soul. Addictions are the purist form of test to find out what you're truly made of.
Started a playlist for my newborn at night. Now at 3 weeks old we have to play this song and September doves before she will go to sleep and it’s almost immediate! Craziest thing I’ve ever seen. She already has a favorite artist.
Both grandfathers of mine were coal miners, and one then became a trucker. This song pulls something of my heritage out of me. Some people just won't experience having "a mountain"
I keep coming back for more. This hits me hard.
I hope with all my heart that my son(RIP Jacob)can see and hear song. He would've love it! I also think its absolutely beautiful.
I'm sure he can Elizabeth, I truly believe music resides inside our spirit it's one of the things we can carry on to the next part of our journey. R.I.P Jacob. I hope you and yours manage to find some healing and solace. From Ireland with love.😬
Beautiful brother
Bring a tear to a skeletons eyes
I am proof
Here we all are. Alive. RN
We can do so much
Lyrics:
I was born on this mountain
A long time ago
Before they knocked down the timber
And strip-mined the coal
When you rose in the mornin'
Before it was light
To go down in that dark hole
And come back up at night
I was born on this mountain
This mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me
From worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave
Now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain
This mountain's my home
I was young on this mountain
But now I am old
And I knew every holler
Every cool swimmin' hole
'Til one night I lay down
And woke up to find
That my childhood was over
And I went down in the mine
I was born on this mountain
This mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me
From worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave
Now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain
This mountain's my home
There's a hole in this mountain
It's dark and it's deep
And God only knows
All the secrets it keeps
There's a chill in the air
Only miners can feel
There're ghosts in the tunnels
That the company sealed
I was born on this mountain
This mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me
From worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave
Now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain
This mountain's my home
Benjamin Tod is new to me and wow!!!! Guy is amazing.
Welcome brother. Another great song is "using again". Dude is one of a kind.
Wesley Simpson Thanks. I have heard that one too. Great stuff. Story telling is missing in music these days.
Same here ...he's awesome tho ..this is great performed by him
justin brew Seen them twice in concert and they are just as great in person. So is Casper Allen.
Its like Ben punches through my chest and pulls my heart out with every song he's ever played or wrote. This guy changed my life at 46
This guy is great! It reminds me of how the people of the Appalachians, The Blue Ridge, Smoky Mountains, and others used to sing. The old Scottish-Irish ballad songs. I'm glad to see it revived...that type of singing and music has an audience in the waiting. ❤
Driven around the Dublin Wicklow mountains working today and this beautiful song just made me feel free at peace I could of died rite there with no regrets 🙌🏼🇺🇸🇮🇪❤✌
This Benjamin Tod is one talented man. This song hits home for anyone with a soul.
Jesus Christ I didn't know there was music this beautiful. Between the songwriter and the performer this is absolutely astounding.
I played this for my black roommate and he asked if it was racist, bahahahahahahah
What’s wrong? He can’t hear?
@@neiltannis probably cuz there was a banjo. Tell him the banjo came from africa and to be open to broadening his musical vocabulary.
@@neiltanniswhen it comes to blacks constantly seeing themselves as a victim it is all so tiresome
I've literally listened to this song 30 times today and it's made me cry evenrytime. I'm not a miner but when he talks about the mountain I replace the meaning with the love of my life. Every time hes says it it breaks me down to my soul...this song is my stone rn while I cant be with her. Makes me think of all of our good times and times to come. Thank you for this song. I felt lost till I found it.
Thank ALL of you for the Authenticity.
All of your music is amazing! It can make me feel whole even in the most questionable of times..
Your music kept me going!
Thank you for being YOU and dont ever stop!!!
5th time in a row. I cant stop
bro 5000th
Right there with you brother
same
Couple years deep of 3-5 times a day. Has a special place in my empty ass heart.
Being a coal miner, this song hits different. Gets better every time I hear it.
Love to hear this dude sing. There's a great lot to be said of someone who doesn't pretend to be something that their not. Pure gold
Eric Ramsey well said
"...and there are ghosts in the tunnels the company sealed..." such powerful lyrics. Powerfully sung. Definitely my favorite version ❤️
❤ yes there are...
Have you heard Levon Helm's version? Ben's is amazing, but Levon's is just pure perfection. Sounds like it's being sung by an old-timer who spent his whole life mining coal in West Virginia.
Sitting here in England .... and .. I cant stop playing this .. and .... Love the belt buckle ;-)
This song reminds me of home .. one of these days I'll go back. Almost doubt they'd even take me back... Hopefully one day I'll be buried up by my grandpa, on our mountain... After he died, I left an haven't been able to go back for more than a few days at a time because there's too many memories. If my grandpa could see me now he'd be so disappointed with what I've become... One day ill go home for good .. until then I'm gonna keep traveling because I can't stay in one place for too long. Thank you Benjamin Todd for everything. Your music helped me in my addiction, an helps me now that I'm sober. I've been listening to these songs for years an honestly I don't know where I'd be if I hadn't clicked that first video.
Chilling performance... my heart breaks a little every time I hear it
When he sings I feel at home. From Scotland x
he sounds scottish to me too but thats just our southern twang
I'm frae the Cairngorms, this song resonates with me.
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Benjamin Todd is an American treasure.
This is fantastic🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I love the South Dakota, Wyoming footage. It is a beautiful countryside that most people would never know about
I'd kill for this version to be on Spotify
Perks of being on TH-cam
Spotify sucks xd
@@BiscuitBob as you can see by the fact I commented on this video, I too am on TH-cam 😂
@@LiteracyLovesYou your mom does the same
@@elibunches6044TH-cam music*
I'm absolutely loving the Lost Dog Street Band. Everything about them. Beautiful.
Your music has gotten me through some extremely troubling times.
I heard this 4 years ago, an i haven't went back to the radio since
“It only gets worse, ain’t nowhere to run. Tomorrow starts to feel like a loaded gun.” I felt that. I felt the whole song. Thanks for sharing sir.
what is that from?
This is so beatyful. It always catches my hearth. Doesn't matter where are you from, living a simple-hard life looks the same. Greetings from Poland.
very beautifully sung
100 times better then Steve Earle's version. Way to bring new light to such a great poem.
Marquis Steen try Levon helm's version
Don't compare. Does no good. Steve wrote it and still sings it best but Leon's shortened version is great as well. This one is good as well but the vocal is pretty flat.
BlindTom wrong...how dare you?!
Groupie much?
BlindTom61 better as spreading hate, buddy