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Cumberland Gap

by Peggy Seeger

on Peggy Seeger (1957), Peggy Seeger Presents Origins of Skiffle (2019)

Me and my wife and my wife's pap
Walked all the 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

Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap
We all raise hell in Cumberland Gap

Cumberland Gap's a hell of a place
There ain't enough water to wash your face

Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap
That's a hell of a place Cumberland Gap

Sit down boys and take a little nap
We'll hell of a place Cumberland Gap

Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap
We'll all hell of a place Cumberland Gap

If so Cumberland ain't your home
You better leave old Cumberland alone

Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap
You better leave old Cumberland alone