Chords for 2nd South Carolina String Band: Cumberland Gap

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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] I'm gonna take a little nap.
Lay down boy, I'm gonna take a little nap.
Lay down boy, I'm gonna take a little nap.
14 miles to Cumberland Gap. _ _ _
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_ _ _ Well, Cumberland Gap is a place of rocks,
Home of the panther and the bear and the fox.
The first white man in Cumberland Gap
Was Dr.
Walker, an English chap.
Lay down boy, I'm gonna take a little nap.
Lay down boy, I'm gonna take a little nap.
Lay down boy, I'm gonna take a little nap.
14 miles to Cumberland Gap.
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Daniel blew [G] up in the coal mine,
[D] Killed a bear, opened up the floodlight.
Cumberland Gap is a fearsome place
Where the shells go off right in your face.
Lay down boy, I'm gonna take a little nap.
Lay down boy, I'm gonna take a little nap.
Lay down boy, I'm gonna [Bm] take a little [D] nap.
Eight more miles to Cumberland Gap.
Here we come.
Well, _ [G] [D] now, here we _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] _
_ come.
In September of 62, _
Morgan Jack is all with brew.
Kirby Smith and [G] his rebel [D] band,
They run George Morgan back to Yankee Land.
Lay down boy, I'm gonna take a little nap.
Lay down boy, I'm gonna take a little nap.
Lay down boy, I'm gonna take a little nap.
Four more miles to Cumberland Gap.
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_ _ They spike their guns and the adrenaline [G] drop.
[D] Rolled up the cliffs of the mountain top.
They burned the hay and the mead.
And left us rebels with nothing to eat.
So come on boys, no time to nap.
Come on boys, let's get to camp.
Come on boys, you can rebel, [Bm] yeah.
We're gonna send them Yankees straight to hell.
Come on boys, [G] time to nap.
[D] Come on boys, no time to nap.
Come on boys, no time [Bm] to nap.
[D] Cause we're gonna raise hell up in Cumberland Gap.
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_ Cumberland Gap.
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I think that's a keeper.
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_ _ [D] We just can't thank you [A#] guys enough for your enthusiasm.
It's really wonderful.
You are great.
[Em] _ _ _
[N] Okay, we're gonna ask some more of you now.
You're gonna have to sing along on this one.
This one's Johnny Comes Marching.
When Johnny comes marching home again.
Oh no, you don't have to sing all of it.
_ _ We have to sing all of it.
You only have to sing, _ _ hurrah, hurrah.
_ _ Hurrah, hurrah.
The men will cheer and the boys will shout.
The ladies, they will all turn out.
We'll sing that part, and then you all sing with us.
And we'll all be gay when Johnny comes marching home.
_ Alright, I can see there's a problem here.
I can see there's a problem.
You don't have to sing, we'll all be gay.
We'll just sing, we'll all feel gay.
When Johnny comes marching home.
That's better, right?
Can you do that?
Can you all do that?
We'll all feel gay when Johnny comes.
Now come on, now gay, back in the 19th century,
lexicon, meant no.
No, no, no, gay meant cool. _ _ _ _
[E] _ Happy meant happy.
Because there's a song called Gay and Happy.
Still, you can't be gay and happy.
It's like, I'd be happy and happy.
Gay meant cool.
_ _ [D] _ Okay, anyway.
[F#] Here we go.
_ Too much of an explanation, I think.
[Em] Here we go.
_ Johnny comes marching home by P.S. Gilmore.
Patrick, Patrick S.
Gilmore, and he was Irish.
And you'll never be able to guess that