Cumberland Gap  Capo: 4th fret

 

 

Chorus: (start out slowly solo)

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Lay down, Boys, and take a little nap,

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lay down, Boys, and take a little nap,

G                                                     Em
lay down, Boys, and take a little nap,

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fourteen miles to the Cumberland Gap.

 

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The first white man in Cumberland Gap,

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The first white man in Cumberland Gap,

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The first white man in Cumberland Gap,

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was a Doctor Walker, an English chap.

 

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Daniel Boone on Pinnacle Rock.
He killed Indians with an old flintlock.

 

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Cumberland Gap is a noted place,
three kinds of water to wash your face.

 

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Cumberland Gap with its cliff and rocks,
home of the panther, the bear, and the fox.

 

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September mornin' in sixty-two,
Morgan's Yankees all withdrew.

 

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They spiked long Tom on the mountain top,
and over the cliffs they let him drop.

 

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They burned the hay, the meal, and the meat,
and left the Rebels nothing to eat.

 

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Braxton Bragg with his Rebel band,
he run George Morgan to the blue-grass land.

 

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The Rebels now will give a little yell,
they'll scare the darkies all to hell.

 

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Ole Aunt Dina, if you don't care,
leave my little jug settin' right there.

 

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If it's not here when I come back,
I'll raise all hell in the Cumberland Gap.

 

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I've got a woman in Cumberland Gap.
She's got a boy that calls me "Pap."

 

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Me and my wife's, ole  grand'pap,
all raise hell in the Cumberland Gap.