An original song written and performed by Tom Shindler, recounting the true story of the naming of Mount Carrie in the Olympic Mountains. The video includes an introduction to where the song came from. Lyrics, chords and a lead sheet are available on TomsSongsLive.com, along with links to all the rest of Tom’s original song videos.
1. I’m gazing at the mountains, across the valleys wide
And thinking of the stories they have known.
And a story comes to mind that I was told some time ago
As I’m looking at the mountain that’s named for Carrie Jones.
2. Theodore Rixon, he was a rugged mountain man,
Walked these peaks and valleys long ago.
And one day when he was walking all alone in the Sol Duc Valley
He came upon a pretty young woman, Carrie Jones.
(Chorus) And Carrie loved the wilderness, the forests and the streams
She’d soar with the Golden Eagle in her dreams
And she lived beneath the mountains, where life is wild and free,
And her wilderness was beautiful, and so was she.
3. She lived upon a homestead at the end of Crescent Lake,
Postmistress for the village at Fairholm.
Rixon named a mountain for the woman that he loved,
And it wasn’t but a year he’d won the hand of Carrie Jones.
(Chorus)
4. Now I love to sing the river’s songs and wander through the mountains
That rise so free and wild above my home.
But I’d love to share the living with a lovely mountain woman.
I guess I must be looking for someone like Carrie Jones. (chorus)
(Chorus)