| Cumberland
Gap Traditional - as collected by Alan Lomax, also by Woody Guthrie Lay down, boys, and take a little nap Fourteen miles to the Cumberland Gap* The first white man in Cumberland Gap Was Doctor Walker an English chap Lay down, boys, and take a little nap They're raisin' hell in the Cumberland Gap Old Daniel Boone on the Pinnacle Rock He killed Injuns with an old flint lock Now Cumberland Gap is a noted place Here's three kinds of water to wash your face Cumberland Gap with its cliffs and rocks The home of the panther the bear and the fox September morning '62* Morgan's Yankees all withdrew They spiked "long tom" on the mountain top And over the cliffs they let him drop They burned the hay, the meal and meat And left the Rebels nothing to eat Braxton Bragg with his rebel band He run George Morgan to the blue grass land Now Cumberland Gap is not very far It's just a littel piece from Middlesboro  alles-uke.de |