MUSICIAN ROSTER
Mark Elliott - Vocals and Wechter Nashville High String Guitar
Gary Culley- Vocals, Santa Cruz F Model Guitar, and Gibson F5 Mandolin
Dave Spak - Drums and Percussion
Ron de la Vega - Electric Bass
Tommy Culley - Piano

Cradle of the Mountain 
Mark Elliott  & Gary Culley

I remember the Shenandoah sundown
Red and golds dancing on that Blueridge sky
The whisper of pine trees riding on the night breeze
Voices of the mountain rocked that sleepy town goodnight   

Here there are asphalt fields under buildings of steel 
The stars about get lost in those big city lights 
This crowded avenue ain’t that dusty road I knew 
Where the sidewalks were flowers and honeysuckle vines 

  Hold on you sweet old memory 
  Take me where the piney river runs 
  When I grow tired and weary 
  Won’t you rock me in the cradle of the mountain 

When I was younger that mountain couldn’t hold Me 
The grass was always greener on the other side 
I was eighteen, I was restless. Carefree and reckless 
Searching for the answers that only come with time 

Hold on you sweet old memory 
Take me where the piney river runs 
When I grow tired and weary 
Won’t you rock me in the cradle of the mountain 

  Hold on you sweet old memory 
  Take me where the piney river runs 
  When I grow tired and weary 
  Won’t you rock me in the cradle of the mountain 

I remember the Shenandoah sundown 
Red and golds dancing on that Blueridge sky

Repeat Chorus

 ©1992 Bluewater Music Corp., BMI/Canoe Run Music, SESAC

Massanutten is a Native American word that means both "Bread Basket" and "Cradle of the Mountain." The mountain is hook shaped, with the small village being cradled in the elbow of the mountain (the bread basket.) Mark and Gary wrote the song and recorded it for the Culley and Elliott album, "Flight of Dreams" in 1992 while on one of their many tours through the Shenandoah Valley.