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"There Is a Mountain" is a song and single by British singer/songwriter Donovan,〔[http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19823/m1/ Show 48 - The British are Coming! The British are Coming!: With an emphasis on Donovan, the Bee Gees and the Who. [Part 5] : UNT Digital Library]〕 released in 1967. It charted in the USA (Billboard: No.11) and UK (No.8). Featured musicians are Donovan (vocals and acoustic guitar), Tony Carr on percussion, Harold McNair on flute and arrangement and Danny Thompson on bass. Chart positions: The Allman Brothers Band's "Mountain Jam" (from ''Eat a Peach'', 1972) is a long, improvised jam song based on this song. The Grateful Dead also sometimes incorporated it. The lyrics refer to a Buddhist saying originally formulated by Qingyuan Weixin, later translated by D.T. Suzuki in his ''Essays in Zen Buddhism'', one of the first books to popularize Buddhism in Europe and the US. Qingyuan writes
Kenny Loggins covered the tune in 2009 with his youngest daughter Hana on his album ''All Join In''. Dandy Livingstone covered the song in 1967. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「There Is a Mountain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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