Lotta Paths is the second song on an Album called Get to Yes. The song was written by Nancy Cunningham and Kathy Klopp.
Kathy is performing and recording all 14 songs as a FAWM project for this year.
Lotta Paths
Nancy Cunningham / Kathy Klopp
Grandpa believed in Sunday drives, lived by his daily walk
If I steered clear of trouble, I got to tag along and talk
Saturday before supper, we headed out to Castle Rock
Told me to listen up girl, and showed me how to walk
A lotta ways to climb a mountain, a lotta trails lead up top
A lotta ways to strike out, a lotta ways to stop
How you gonna climb this mountain, you follow your own will
You gotta find your own way, cause a lotta paths lead up the hill
Grandpa got into some mischief in a ditch on the County Line
Pick-up wasn’t totalled, but sure looked bad at the time
He had a spot of trouble with his eyes, but his mind kept working fine
Even after he went blind, he’d still never fall behind
A lotta ways to climb a mountain, a lotta trails lead up top
A lotta ways to strike out, a lotta ways to stop
How you gonna climb this mountain, follow your own will
You gotta find your own way, 'cause a lotta paths lead up the hill
I asked to go see Grandpa, well, Mama said one day you will
Said he’s looking down on all of us, he musta made it up the hill
And when I have grandkids, I’ll tell ‘em what my Grandpa said to me
There’s a lotta different ways to look at things, and that’s just how it oughta be
A lotta paths to climb a mountain, a lotta trails lead up top
A lotta ways to strike out, a lotta ways to stop
How you gonna climb this mountain, follow your own will
You gotta find your own way, 'cause a lotta paths lead up the hill
Lotta paths lead up the hill
A lotta paths lead up the hill
@berni1954 Mar 2022
Nice old time feel to this. It has a Carter Family feel to it. Great simile for our struggles in our everyday life. And as a keen hiker I like this on a purely literal level too.
@andygetch Mar 2022
A lot of ways to climb a mountain indeed! Such a wonderful philosophy and message in the lyric. Must have been a fun duet.
@nadine Mar 2022
This sounds like a typical good ol country song to me as non-American. Lovely guitar picking, interesting vocal layering. Love the storytelling of the lyrics. I can imagine the scene. Of the grandpa and the way the ideas are transported to children and grandchildren.
@jkepler Feb 2022
I see this one as if it were being sung in a frontporch song-sing. Classic americana take on many paths leading up the hill.