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Blue Mountain (F.W. Keller)

Adam Miller leads the audience in singing “Blue Mountain” a Utah folksong, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 18, 2015. Videography by Robert C. Richmond, [email protected], www.do-some-good.com. Adam Miller's website is; Folksinging.org. • Upon his return from service in the First World War, First Lieutenant Fred W. Keller (1892-1976), a law student from Manti, Utah, wanted to live as far from a railroad track or telegraph pole as possible. And in 1919, that was the little cow-town of Monticello, in Utah’s Southeast corner. There, in the shadow of the Blue (Abajo) Mountains, the spruce trees form the outline of a horse’s head on the mountainside. Keller became the judge of San Juan County, so he is being ironic when he writes: “I seek a refuge from the law.” Recycling the melody from a traditional hymn, “Bound Down in the Walls of a Prison,” he wrote this song for a 1929 banquet held to honor local senior citizens and it has since entered the oral tradition. • The “L.C.” and the “Hip, Side & Shoulder” were two competing cattle outfits in Monticello. A “sleeper calf” is an unbranded calf that the cattle thief earmarks so he can return later and brand it as his own. • In Cowboy and Western Songs (1960), pioneering Utah folklorist Austin Fife (1909-1986) wrote of this song, “Many cowboys drifted from ranch to ranch through a dozen western states. Owning nothing except a cow pony, saddle, and ‘hot roll’ [bedroll], they rode the ‘Chuck line’ - begged, that is - from ranch to ranch, staying out their welcome at each before moving on.”or buckskin shade, with dark zebra stripes across his withers and around both forelegs." He also said that many cowboys believed that the mother of a zebra dun had mule blood in her system.