Key signature: Adorian
Submitted on August 26th 2001 by glauber.
This tune has been added to 368 tunebooks.
Also known as Chi Mi Na Morbheanna, Junior Crehan's, Mist Covered Mountain, The Mist Covered Mountain, Mist On The Mountain, The Mist-covered Mountain, The Mist-Covered Muntain, The Misty Mountain.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Mist On The Mountain, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Ador
G|EAA ABd|e2 A AGE|~G3 GAB|dBA GED|
EAA ABd|e2A AGE|efg dBG|BAG A2:|
a|age a2b|age edB|AGE G2A|BAB GED|
age a2b|age edB|AGE G2A|BAG A3|
age a2b|age edB|AGE G2A|BAB GED|
EDE G2A|BAG ABd|efg dBG|BAG A2||
Mist On The Mountain
This is from a collection called "Session Tunes II" , by John B. Walsh. Junior Crehan is given as author.
# Posted on August 26th 2001 by glauber
True Story
I have always associated certain tunes with events in my life. Sometimes I find myself whistling a tune and it makes me remember places I've travelled to, usually because at that time I had been singing that tune to myself incessantly, or sometimes it is because I had played a particular CD over and over again until I got sick of it, and consequently made a connection with the tune in my head. Does anyone else get that lots?
This tune - "The Mist On The Mountain" - I will always associate with my holiday in Hawaii a couple of years ago. I had managed to get a free airline ticket worth $1000 and made a detour from Shanghai to spend a couple of weeks on Oahu and Maui. I was able to meet up with Derek ("Delboy") - my friend from California, who had been able to get a couple of weeks of work.
Anyway, my stay on the island of Maui turned out to be unexpectedly strange. Del is well into cars, so we ended up renting this beautiful Mustang convertible in British Racing Green at the airport when we arrived. I had campaigned for something cheaper but didn't take much persuading in the end. This car was a hormone on wheels.
Well, we spent a few days just chilling out, lying on beautiful beaches gazing at the sunset, moon and stars, and occasionally going for a dip in the water to play with the Hawaiian green sea turtles. We went to waterfalls, cool dripping caves, and black sand beaches. It was such a cool place.
Our hostel, on the other hand, was the worst I've ever stayed in. The owners were exceptionally unfriendly and constantly spaced out on magic mushrooms. The rooms were dirty and teeming with huge bedbugs, slavering for blood. When I pointed out to the owners that in case they hadn't noticed, they had a massive bug problem, they answered "Oh we don't talk about that". Outside, the place was swarming with prostitutes and dodgy drug dealers. We decided to check out a day early and they wouldn't give us our money back, and they also nicked off with our key deposits. We left feeling helpless and thoroughly ripped off.
We had wanted to go to the top of Mt Haleakala to see the sunrise before we left the island the following day, and sleeping in freezing temperatures on top of the world's largest dormant volcano was, we decided, preferable to having to deal with such odd people and being bitten alive by miniature vampires. So we slept in the front of the Mustang at an altitude of 10000ft right at the top of this volcano, and I can tell you it was bloody freezing and extremely uncomfortable!
In the morning we were disappointed to find that our car was enveloped in thick fog (cloud actually) and we couldn't even see the road in front of us never mind the sunrise. So here we were at 7 in the morning descending the mountain, dejected and unable to see a thing, and coughing up frothy pink sputum from our altitude sickness (not really). This is the part I associate with this tune - I think I was singing it to myself in my state of half-sleep as we negotiated the hairpin bends. I must have gently fallen asleep in the passenger seat because the next thing I remember was being jolted awake suddenly to find myself involved in a car accident. I was in the middle of a dream when there was this almighty crash and Del in the driver's seat going "Oh shit... oh my God!". I remember asking sleepily: "was that an animal?"
"Dude that was a goddamn TELEVISION!" screamed a wide-eyed Del as he burst out of the car. He was absolutely furious because we were actually on our way to the airport to return the car. We changed the wheel, which had been totally ripped to shreds and warped by the impact. Behind us on the grass verge was the oldest truck I've ever seen in my life. On the trailer was a mishmash of junk - broken wood, household appliances, toilets, god knows what else. All of this was stacked high Jenga style, and insufficiently tied up. To the right on the road lay the smashed telly amongst lots of broken glass, the remains of which one of the men from the truck was making a half-hearted attempt to sweep up. I approached one of the three men, who appeared to be the driver, and calmly said in my ever-so-English accent: "Excuse me, sorry to bother you. Erm.. I just think it might be a good idea if you put some sort of hazard sign on the road up there just to avoid any more accidents because you see, we've just hit that mess and now we've got a flatty". The man was Hawaiian and rather large. "That's your fault man.. you ran into it." He continued to jabber in a panicked tone and I thought "I really can't be arsed with this" so I sighed loudly and began to walk away saying "OK fine, fair enough". I was too tired to have a go at him, having just woken up, and he suddenly stopped jabbering and looked stunned that I wasn't trying to argue.
A police car arrived, lights blazing, and a cop wearing shades and a pistol stepped out, yelling at us to pull the car into the side of the road. What would a trip to America be without a run-in with the cops?! Anyway he took our details and Del wrote an accident report. I was so tripped out. 5 minutes later we arrived at the airport and turned in our bashed up car as we no longer had any need for it. It looked totally comical: a real sexy tank of a sports car with massive fat wheels, except for one of the front ones which looked like it had been transplanted from a pram. So I would like to say right here and now: "thank you 'Budget Car Rental', we enjoyed crashing your brand-new Open-top Mustang!"
Dow
# Posted on March 13th 2003 by Dow
A beautiful tune. Junior certainly had a knack for composition.
# Posted on July 24th 2003 by Hanley
Ending
the ending should not end on a leading tone, it should normally end on the first note it is started on.
# Posted on April 8th 2004 by MusicManiacgirly
Copyright
Does anyone know if Mist On The Mountain by Junior Crehan is copyrighted? Can I make a recording of it and post it on a forum for instance? If no money is involved, is it possible to have "online sessions" with such tunes?
# Posted on January 9th 2005 by Cammy
Re: Copyright
Under US law, all original works are copyrighted automatically upon creation.
# Posted on January 9th 2005 by markwilson
Re: Copyright
I think first of all is to find out if a) he wrote it and b) was it just a tune he played. If a) the most likely people to have copyright would be his family, but somehow I doubt it. If you know anyone in the Quilty/ Miltown area, get them to ask around.
b) No problem whatsoever, even if there is a claim I would ignore it.
# Posted on January 9th 2005 by Ian Stevenson
Original Scottish slow air setting: http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/470
# Posted on January 9th 2005 by slainte
Name
Is this not 'the Mist-*Covered* Mountain'?
# Posted on January 9th 2005 by triplet
yes
# Posted on January 9th 2005 by gian marco
Yes, but we can choose.
# Posted on January 9th 2005 by slainte
Mist Covered Mountains/Chi Mi Na Morbheana
Listening to this MIDI file I don't hear the tune of Chi Mi Na Morbheana otherwise known as Mist Covered Mountains. The Chi Mi Na Morbheana tune was used by Jim MacLean for his song Hush Hush, Time to be Sleeping, or Smile in Your Sleep.
The Gaelic song Chi Mi Na Morbheana was written under the title Duil ri Baile Chaolais fhaicinn. The tune listed for it is Johnny stays long at the Fair.
# Posted on January 23rd 2005 by George Seto
Correct MIDI of Mist Covered Mountains
http://ingeb.org/songs/chiminam.mid
or at JC's
X:323
T:Mist Covered Mountains, The
T:Chi Mi Na Morbheanna
B:Scots Guards Standard Settings V.1
N:Transposed from Bm for comparison
Z:Nigel Gatherer
L:1/8
M:6/8
F:http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/abc/abc4/mistc.abc 2005-01-23 17:46:46 UT
K:Am
A3 A3|e2 e e>dB|G3 G3|B>AB A>GA|
c3 d3|e>fg B>AG|A>Be d>cB|A3 A3:|
e3 e3|d>eg e>dB|G2 G d2 B|e2 e d>cB|
A3 c3|e>fg B>AG|A>Be d>cB|A3 A3:|
# Posted on January 23rd 2005 by George Seto
George, you're wrong. This is a jig, not an air.
# Posted on January 23rd 2005 by slainte
Jig from Song
The online encyclopedia "The Fiddler's Companion" (http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc/) lists this jig under the name "The Misty Mountain." It has entries for both the jig and the song "Chi Mi na Morbheanna" (which includes the words). The entry for the jig indicates that Junior Crehan composed it by adapting the melody of the song.
# Posted on June 17th 2005 by turophile
I play the first part like this:
K: Ador
G|EAA ABd|edB AGE|~G3 GAB|dBA GED|
EAA ABd|edB ABd|efg dBG|BAG A2:|
# Posted on December 7th 2005 by slainte
The Mist on the Mountain
You can listen to Junior Crehan himself play this tune: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/ceilihouse/rams/7august.ram (starts around 27:00)
# Posted on January 24th 2006 by slainte
This is one of the new tunes we play at our session. It's simple but I like it. We play it after another one of Junior's compositions, An Lurgadàn.
# Posted on February 16th 2006 by PaddyCmusic
Mist on the mountain in Gdorian
Does anyone have a transcription of Mist (Jr.Crehan) in G dorian. That is the key that Kevin Burke played it in and I believe that Junior wrote it in. Thanks
# Posted on June 5th 2006 by Acacia
The second part is usually played like this: a|age a2b|age edB|AGE G2A|BAB deg|
So, to put everything together:
K: Ador
G|EAA ABd|edB AGE|~G3 GAB|dBA GED|
EAA ABd|edB ABd|efg dBG|BAG A2:|
a|age a2b|age edB|AGE G2A|BAB deg|
age a2b|age edB|AGE G2A|BAG A2a|
age a2b|age edB|AGE G2A|BAB GED|
EDE G2A|BAG ABd|efg dBG|BAG A2||
I'm pretty sure this is what you come across very often in many parts of the world, even though nobody plays exactly the same way and I do a bit differently.
# Posted on June 8th 2006 by slainte
The Mist Covered Mountain
There is a transcription of this in the CCE Book-'Bowing Styles in Irish Fiddle Playing' by David Lyth supposedly in the style of Junior Crehan
I think it's in the key of C but as I wouldn't know my Ionian from my Aeolian........!!
# Posted on October 31st 2006 by oakeydoke
Lyth's transcription is G Mixolydian, but there's only one B (natural), and it's in the second ending to the B part, so it's not unreasonable to call it G Dorian. But the key is definitely G, not C, in the transcription from Junior's playing.
# Posted on November 1st 2006 by GaryAMartin