page_title: Good Old Mountain Dew
section_title: Recordings and adaptions
hierarchical_section_title: Good Old Mountain Dew / Recordings and adaptions
caption_attribution_description: English: Old 10 oz. bottle of Mountain Dew (1960s&#160;???)
context_page_description: "Good Old Mountain Dew", sometimes called simply "Mountain Dew" or "Real Old Mountain Dew", is an Appalachian folk song composed by Bascom Lamar Lunsford and Scotty Wiseman. There are two versions of the lyrics, a 1928 version written by Lunsford and a 1935 adaptation by Wiseman. Both versions of the song are about moonshine. The 1935 version has been widely covered and has entered into the folk tradition becoming a standard.
context_section_description: Since 1935, "Good Old Mountain Dew" has been rerecorded and covered by a wide variety of folk, old time, and country musicians including Grandpa Jones, Glen Campbell, and Willie Nelson. Nelson's cover reached number twenty-three on Billboard's Hot Country Songs and stayed there for six weeks. Over time, artists have added new verses, but the tune has remained the same since it was first written in the 1920s. The gospel song "Traveling the Highway Home" is based on "Good Old Mountain Dew" and uses the same tune but has lyrics about moving closer to eternal life after death instead of about moonshine.
  After PepsiCo bought the soft drink Mountain Dew in 1964, they commissioned a set of advertisements featuring a "Good Old Mountain Dew"-based jingle and the drink's mascot: a barefooted back-country man called "Willie the Hillbilly".
caption: Front and back of a "Willie the Hillbilly"-era Mountain Dew bottle
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