Cumberland Gap Traditional - lyrics as sung by Woody Guthrie* - chords as in Bliuegrass versions 4/4 G/// - //Em - G/// - D/G/ - G/// - //Em - G/// - D/G/ - G/// - G/// - G/// - D/G/ - Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap Seventeen miles to the Cumberland Gap Lay down, boys, take a little nap Seventeen miles to the Cumberland Gap Cumberland Gap, it aint nowhere Fifteen miles from Middlesburgh As I was a-going down the road I met that terrapin and met that toad * This is the version I recorded myself ![]() ![]() |