Crystal Bowersox – Up to the Mountain (MLK Song) Video and Lyrics

Up to the Mountain (MLK Song) (Patty Griffin) by Crystal Bowersox, Music Lyrics and Video

Crystal Bowersox performed “Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)” as the third song from the final round of American Idol Season 9.

The original song “Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)” is a contemporary folk song written by Patty Griffin. The song touches upon emotions surrounding Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous 1968 “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, given the day before his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.

You can listen the song here, Crystal Bowersox performing “Up to the Mountain” on American Idol Season 9 Finale.

Crystal Bowersox – Up to the Mountain (MLK Song) Lyrics

I went up to the mountain

Because you asked me to

Up over the clouds

To where the sky was blue

I could see all around me

Everywhere

I could see all around me

Everywhere

Sometimes I feel like

I’ve never been nothing but tired

And I’ll be walking

Till the day I expire

Sometimes I lay down

No more can I do

But then I go on again

Because you ask me to

Some days I look down

Afraid I will fall

And though the sun shines

I see nothing at all

Then I hear your sweet voice, oh

Oh, come and then go, come and then go

Telling me softly

You love me so

The peaceful valley

Just over the mountain

The peaceful valley

Few come to know

I may never get there

Ever in this lifetime

But sooner or later

It’s there I will go

Sooner or later

It’s there I will go

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