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Cumberland Gap

(aka Doggett Gap)

Traditional

Verse:
G	-	-	Em
G	-	D7	G
Chorus:
G	-	-	Em
G	-	D7	G
Instrumental:
Em	-	-	-
-	-	-	G
Em	-	-	-
-	-	-	G  (repeat from verse)
Ending Chorus:
G	-	-	Em
G	-	D7	G

Note: This song is in 2/4 time. Play 2-beats for each cell.

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Verse:

Me and my wife and my wife's pap,

We all live down in Cumberland Gap.

 

Chorus:

Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap,
'Way down yonder in Cumberland Gap.

 

Instrumental:

(No Lyrics)

 

Ending Chorus:

Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap,
'Way down yonder in Cumberland Gap.

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Performer Links:

(webpage)

 

Listen to Homer And The Barnstormers perform "Cumberland Gap" with Buck Trent on banjo (mp3)

 

Watch Bascom Lunsford and his banjo band perform "Doggett Gap" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

Click here for 5-String Banjo Tab

 

This Chord Chart may not appear correctly with some browsers.  It should be viewed with a full size window.  

The chord names should appear in single rows.   Let me know of any problems.

email: jbott@ix.netcom.com