Name: Deye Mon Gen Mon
Duration: 2 min 33 s
Channel: Margaret Bonnell
Description: "Deye Mon Gen Mon" is a song by Margaret Bonnell.

Deye Mon Gen Mon

Margaret Bonnell

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Margaret Bonnell

This page, in it's current incarnation, is mainly a place for me to put the songs I have written for FAWM (February Album Writing Month) 2007 and am writing for FAWM 2008. It's a great little challenge, check out their website at www.fawm.org Have a listen, in time I may add older stuff, we'll see...

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic General

Charts

Peak #65

Peak in subgenre #18

Author

Margaret Bonnell

Rights

Margaret Bonnell

Uploaded

March 12, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.3 MB • 128 kbps • 2:33

Story behind the song

"Deye mon gen mon" is a Haitian saying that roughly translates to "behind the mountains are more mountains"

i thought it appropriate material for a month of 14 "mountains" 
please let me know how to really pronounce the Haitian -- I'm just guessing...

Lyrics

Deye mon gen mon

(chorus)
it's one foot after the other,
keep on climbing, sisters and brothers
one foot after the other
Deye mon gen mon

sad is the man who thinks of life as troubles without end
for on this chain of mountains, there is beauty at each bend.

(chorus)

a man can't see the mountains beyond the one he climbs,
and all that any man can do is climb one at a time.

(chorus)

each new peak is higher yet, sometimes the progress slows,
but what would be the point of life, with no place left to go?

(chorus)

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