
…Cumberland gap, Cumberland gap
Fifteen miles on the Cumberland gap
Cumberland gap, Cumberland gap
Fifteen miles on the Cumberland…
…gap
Cumberland gap ain't nowhere
Fifteen miles from middlesborough
Cumberland gap ain't nowhere
Fifteen miles from…
…middlesborough
Cumberland gap, Cumberland gap
Fifteen miles on the Cumberland gap
Cumberland gap, Cumberland gap
Fifteen miles on the Cumberland…

…Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap Seventeen miles from the Cumberland Gap Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap Seventeen miles from the Cumberland Gap…

…way to Cumberland Gap Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap Walked all the way to Cumberland Gap I've got a wife and five little tabs We all raise hell in Cumberland Gap…

Lay down boys
Take a little nap
16 miles 'til the Cumberland gap
16 miles 'til the Cumberland gap
Cumberland Gap
Cumberland Gap…
All dead and gone
All dead and gone
All dead and gone
My old man and my grandpap
First white men through the Cumberland Gap
My old…
…man and my grandpap
First white men through the Cumberland Gap
Cumberland gap
Cumberland Gap
All dead and gone
All dead…

…the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole [Verse 2] I ain't cut out for war, unless I know what I'm fighting for And there's nothing here but churches, bars, and grocery stores Ain't much money in…
Maybe the Cumberland…
…just swallows you whole
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole…

…he was down in the mines all day
I know he wanted more than mouths to feed and bills to pay
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just…
…swallows you whole
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
I ain't cut out for war, unless I know what I'm fighting…
…till I'm on my ass again
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
Maybe the Cumberland…

…Cumberland gap, it's a devil of a gap Cumberland gap, it's a devil of a gap [Verse 1] Kiss me momma, kiss your boy Bless me well n' lucky For I won't be back til' I return I'm gone to old Kentucky Cumberland gap, it's a…

…Cumberland gap, it's a devil of a gap Cumberland gap, it's a devil of a gap [Verse 1] Kiss me momma, kiss your boy Bless me well n' lucky For I won't be back til' I return I'm gone to old Kentucky Cumberland gap, it's a…

…miles, Cumberland Gap Cumberland Gap, she ain't my home I'm a-gonna leave old Cumberland alone Old Aunt Dinah, you can't tell I'm a-gettin' homesick, fare you well Me and my wife, seventeen chaps We built a home in Cumberland…

…Cumberland Gap ain't my home
I'm gonna leave before too long
Cumberland Gap ain't very far
Just four miles from Middlesborough…
…Gap
Me and my wife and her grandpap
Walked all the way from Cumberland Gap
Cumberland Gap is an awful place
Can't get…
…enough water to wash your face
When I die I'll make my will
I want to be buried on Cumberland Hill
Cumberland Gap ain't my home…

…Cumberland Gap is not my home
I'm gonna leave old Cumberland alone
Cumberland Gap is one devil of a place
Can't get…
…all day through that Cumberland Gap
Old aunt Dinah, if you don't care
I'll leave my demijohn sittin' right there
And if it's not there when I get back
I'll raise hell in the Cumberland Gap…

Lay down boys, and take a little nap
Snow knee-deep in Cumberland Gap
Cumberland Gap's a devil of a place
Couldn't find water…
…to wash my face
Me an' my wife an' my wife's pap
Walked all the way from Cumberland Gap
Pretty little girl if you don't care
I'll…
…leave my demijohn a sittin' right there
If it ain't here when I get back
I'll raise hell in Cumberland Gap
Lay down boys, and take a little rest
We'll all wake up in a whippoorwill's nest…

Me and my wife and my wife's pap
We're all going down to Cumberland Gap
Me and my wife and my wife's pap
We're all going down to Cumberland Gap…

Have you been to the Cumberland Gap? Oh, no
Fix your eyes on the green of the map? Oh, no
Where the Appalachians rise?
Oh…
…prevent what is heaven sent
Joe can't control where his money goes
He's Mighty Joe
Have ya been to the Cumberland Gap? Oh, no
The air is sweeter than oranges now
Oh no, oh no…

…to the Cumberland Gap? Oh, no Fix yer eyes on the green of the map? Oh, no Where the Appalachians rise? Oh, no Oh, no Have you tasted the finest of trout? Oh, no Have you slept in a log-burning house? Oh, no With your feet flopping over the couch? Oh, no Oh, no Like Mighty…