Tony Small
I go up on Mandolin Mountain
High on Melody Hill
High sweet harmony
Water at the well
As my life is passing through me
I’m mostly satisfied
Old songs keep calling me
Calling through the night
It was written in The Book of Life
Way back down the road
Love is for the patient one
The honest and the good
All along the Valley of The Boyne
On to Tara Hill
I know that it always was
I know that it always will
I first met Tony Small in 1969. Over the years we hooked up regularly. Tony knew the inside of songs. Listening to Mandolin Mountain in 2012 we did not realise that it would be his last recording. Each time I sing this song I sense that Tony is close by.