Cumberland Gap
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
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Lyrics:
Me and my wife and my wife's pap,
We all live down in the Cumberland Gap.
Chorus:
Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap.
Way down yonder in the Cumberland Gap.
Cumberland Gap is a noted place
Three kinds of water to wash your face.
Chorus
The first white man in the Cumberland Gap
Was Doctor Walker, an English Chap.
Chorus
Daniel Boone on Pinnacle Rock,
Killed many Injuns with his old flintlock.
Chorus
Lay down, boys, and take a little nap.
Fo'teen miles to the Cumberland Gap
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"Cumberland Gap" is an Appalachian folk song that likely dates<br> to the latter half of the 19th century and was first recorded in<br> 1924. The song is typically played on banjo or fiddle, and well-known<br> versions of the song include instrumental versions as well as versions<br> with lyrics. A version of the song appeared in John Lomax's 1934 book<br> American Ballads and Folk Songs. Woody Guthrie recorded a version of<br> the song at his Folkways sessions in the mid-1940s, and the song saw a<br> resurgence in popularity with the rise of bluegrass and the folk music<br> revival in the 1950s and 1960s.<br> The short easy tune (also used for the chorus) is easy to improvise<br> instrumental breaks.<br> The Cumberland Gap is a pass in the Appalachians between upper<br> Tennessee and Kentucky. It is through this passage in the mountains<br> that Daniel Boone in 1773 led a group of pioneers into Kentucky along<br> his famous Wilderness Road.<br> It was recorded ny Uncle Am Stuart (1924), Gid Tanner and Riley Puckett (1924),<br> Gid Tanner and The Skillet Lickers (1928, 1933), Frank Hutchison (1929),<br> Woody Guthrie (1944), Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1949), Pete Seeger (1954), <br> Wade Ward (1959), Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs (1961), Dock Boggs (1963)<br> Hobart Smith (1963), Fred Cockerman (1967), Kyle Creed (1977) and many others.<br> It has been printed in Pete Seeger's The Bells of Rhymney and Alan Lomax's<br> The Folk Songs of North America.<br> I have known it for so long I can't remember where I learned it or from whom.<br>
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