- Style
- Old-time
- Tradition
- Appalachian
- Form
- Breakdown
- Key
- G
- Level
- 2
- Played on
- Fiddle
In the public domain. Source
Music
90bpm
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Chord chart
History
The Cumberland Gap is a pass through the Appalachians where Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia meet. Daniel Boone led settlers through it into Kentucky on the Wilderness Road, and that story likely helped make the title popular. Several different tunes share the name.
Alan Jabbour dated it well back into the 19th century. Bascom Lamar Lunsford said it was a sped up "Bonny James Campbell," and Jabbour found 32 recordings under the title. Osey and Ernest Helton of Asheville recorded it in 1924, and the Skillet Lickers in 1928.
Me and my wife and my wife's Pap, Walked all the way through the Cumberland Gap.
The Cumberland Gap's an awful place, Can't get the water for to wash your face.