Mel, Mel & Julian
Barry McGuire & Henry Van Loon
Story
This was quite a popular folk song with a mythological Norse theme... we copped it from Barry & Barry (Barry McGuire and Barry Kane). This was one of the tunes performed by Mel and Mel, and their friend Louis Meyer at the first Johannesburg Folk Festival in 1963 and which was included on the Commemorative LP of that concert.
Lyrics
In the land of Oden,
there lies a mountain,
Ten thousand miles, in the air
From edge to edge
This mountain measures,
Ten thousand miles square
A little bird comes a winging
Once every thousand years or so
Sharpens its beak on the mountain
And then he swiftly flies away
And when this mountain
has worn away
that in eternity will be
But one single day.
One single day
Will be one single day