Kuimba: Music

Mt. Diablo is located approximately forty-five miles East of San Francisco, California. It was considered to be a sacred birthplace of the world by some central California tribes whose languages carried a number of different names for it. The name "Mt. Diablo" was applied to the Mountain by Europeans in more recent times.

Personnel- Lark Bowerman, lead vocal, guitar; Kris Bowerman, vocal, recorder; John Waller, percussion effects; Don Keller, electric bass

From Shell Ridge you can see her
Rising gently through the mist,
Watch the clouds break up and wander
As by the morning sun she’s kissed.

You can take the winding roadway
Up to her noble crest.
There with the soaring birds of prey
You can see the view the best.

And through the day
The shadows play
Across her gentle slopes.
Beneath azure skies
You can feast your eyes
On Mt. Diablo.

Call her Mountain of the Devil
But she’ll never play you treason.
She meets you on the level
And she challenges your reason.

And through the day
The shadows play
Across her gentle slopes.
Beneath azure skies
You can feast your eyes
On Mt. Diablo.

And through the day
The shadows play
Across her gentle slopes;
And her ancient trees
Hold memories
That can fill our hearts with hopes.