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Subject: [TNCAMPBE-L] Fw: Going through some old poems:-)
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:07:08 -0400

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Subject: Going through some old poems:-)


CUMBERLAND GAP

Lay down, boys, an' take a little nap,

Lay down, boys, an' take a little nap,

Lay down, boys, an' take a little nap,

They're raisin' Hell in Cumberland Gap.

The first white man in Cumberland Gap,

Was Doctor Walker, an English chap.

Daniel Boone on Pinnacle Rock,

He killed Indians with an old flintlock.

Cumberland Gap is a noted place,

Three kinds of water to wash your face.

Cumberland Gap with its cliff and rocks,

Home of the panther, bear, and fox.

September mornin' in Sixty-two,

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 the meat,

And left the rebels noting to eat.

Braxton Bragg with his rebel band,

He run George Morgan to the blue-grass land.

The rebels now will give a little yell,

They'll scare the niggers all to Hell.

Ol' Aunt Dinah, ef you don't keer,

Leave my little jug settin' right here.

Ef it's not here when I come back,

I'll raise Hell in Dumberland Gap.

Ol' Aunt Dinah took a little spell,

Broke my little jug all to Hell.

I've got a woman in Cumberland Gap,

She's got a boy that calls me "pap."

Me an' my wife an' my wife's gran'pap,

All raise Hell in Cumberland Gap.



The verses to "Cumberland Gap" are

taken from the Songs of the Civil War

edited by Irwin Sibler, and American

Ballads and Folk Songs, edited by

John A. Lomas and Alan Lomax. WGT

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