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Mountain Top

Written by Paul McCartney

Last updated on June 17, 2026

Album This song officially appears on the The Boys Of Dungeon Lane Official album.

Timeline This song was officially released in 2026

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“Mountain Top” is a track from the album “The Boys Of Dungeon Lane“, released in 2026.

So we were in Sussex working, me and Steve [Orchard] and… I’d been to Glastonbury, so I was full of the sort of hippie mood. You know, when you drive or walk around Glastonbury, you see all the tents and all the… everyone, you know, this whole hippie vibe. So I wanted to write a song that was from the point of view of someone who was at the festival or that kind of thing, any festival. And it’s a bit trippy. So it’s like, you know, you get magic mushrooms talking to you and, you know, all sorts of stuff happening. It was nice to do sort of a trippy thing, you know, just very free. You can go anywhere with all your backwoods and loops and everything, you know. So this is it, it’s called “Mountain Top.”

Paul McCartney – From Exclusive Commentary Edition Digital Album – Recorded during the “Boys of Dungeon Lane” listening session at Abbey Road, May 5, 2026

It’s like Coachella and Glastonbury … kind of people going off for the weekend to trip out and get stoned. And we go to quite a few festivals these days. We would’ve gone to Glastonbury this year, but it’s not on this year. I was trying to get that feeling of a young girl at the festival, tripping out.

Paul McCartney – From Variety, April 17, 2026 – From the “Boys of Dungeon Lane” listening session, April 16, 2026

Produced with tape loops, the spacy song is from the perspective of a young girl tripping out with her friends at a music festival. McCartney’s voice is almost unrecognizable in the dreamy song that sounds like a cousin to “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.” After singing about how everyone’s tripping, McCartney adds, “everyone’s flipping/need to get a grip and get away, or do you want to stay.” The adventurous tune, which bursts into psychedelic warp speed at one point with pounding guitars and drums, would sound even more experimental if it weren’t created by the person who, with his friends 70 years ago, completely invented a new language for rock ‘n’ roll.

From Billboard, April 17, 2026

After the track played out, he addressed an obvious touch that was delighting Beatles fans in the assemblage. “We use tape loops,” he said. “Any excuse to get tape loops for me! I love them,” he affirmed, noting it produces an effect “you don’t get any other way.” And he confirmed whose spoken voice appears at the end of the track, although it was hard to decipher on first listen what she was saying. “We put Nancy’s voice through a tape loop, at the end there,” he said.

From the front row, Shevell jumped in with a one-word assessment of her own contribution to the stoney track: “Riveting!”

From Variety, April 17, 2026 – From the “Boys of Dungeon Lane” listening session, April 16, 2026
A countdown leading to May 29, the release date of the album, was organized on Paul McCartney’s social media accounts. Each day, details of a new track — including songwriting and recording credits — were revealed in reverse running order, with Track 10 unveiled ten days before the album’s release, Track 9 nine days before, and so on, culminating with Track 1 on the eve of release.

Lyrics

Take me to the mountain top

Show me how the waters drop

Down into the valley stream below

Anytime I walk with you

Magic mushrooms peeping through

Seem to want to talk and say "hello"

Pumpkin pies in the skies

Also try to hypnotise

You and me everywhere we go

Little girl, you're tripping

Everybody's flipping out

Need to get a grip and slip away

Or do you want to stay?

Ba-ba-ba, ba, ba-ba

Ba-ba-ba, ba, ba-ba-ba

Ba-ba-ba, ba, ba-ba-ba, Pompeii

When you've got some time to spare

Let me take you to the fair

Stars will glitter when the moon is new

We can take the second bus

No one but the two of us

Ever needs to check on what we do

Butterflies multiply

Flutter by our surprise

'Round our heads yellow, red, and blue

Now we're really tripping

Everybody's flipping out

Need to get a grip and slip away

Little girl, you're tripping

Everybody's flipping out

Need to get a grip and slip away

Or do you want to stay?

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