Cumberland Gap

1, 2, 1, 2, three 

[Verso 1]
 
C 
They say 
Somewhere down south there's a man who's headed 
G 
Sideways 
Sling on his back not a nickle upon his 
C 
Last name 
Just a few hymns and a voice he swears he'll 
G 
Find someday 
Says he'll check in the Cumberland Gap 
                        C 
Then he's headed on home 
Was a man on the old frontier 
                       D 
Needed nothing but his own two ears 
                    C 
Carving life out of blood and tears 
                      D 
With his calloused hands 
                 C 
But the Lord had another way 
       G             D 
Sent a wind upon the earth that day 
                  C 
All he had it was blown away 
               D 
Like a hill of sand 
C                D 
Oh Oh Ohhh Oh Oh Oh 
   C  G  D 
He-ey Hey 
 


[Verso 2]
 
                    C 
As the dust settled 'neath the sky 
                 D 
Felt the scales a-falling from his eyes 
                   C 
He was washed in a blinding light 
              D 
And a golden song 
                C 
Saying boy I got plans for you 
                         D 
Crazy stories but they'll all come true 
      E              C 
Not a thing that you gotta do 
       G         D 
But to come along 
 


[Refrão]
 
I can hear it when 
C 
They say 
Somewhere down south there's a man who's headed 
G 
Sideways 
Sling on his back not a nickle upon his 
C 
Last name 
Just a few hymns and a voice he swears he'll 
G 
Find someday 
           E 
Says he'll check in the Cumberland Gap 
D                   C 
Then he's headed on home 
G   D 
Ay  Ay Ay Ay 
        C 
Hes on home 
         D 
Oh Oh Oh Oh 
 


[Verso 3]
 
                   C 
And he sang as the years went by 
        G           D 
How the Mississippi ran bone dry 
       Em            C 
But he prayed by the riverside 
         G             D 
Till the heavens poured 
       Em          C 
How he spoke in an ancient tongue 
        G              D 
Saw the crippled and a dead man run 
           C 
Thought it strange when it first begun 
         G           D 
Now it's all that he knows 
 


[Refrão]
 
I can hear it when 
C 
They say 
Somewhere down south there's a man who's headed 
G 
Sideways 
Sling on his back not a nickle upon his 
C 
Last name 
Just a few hymns and a voice he swears he'll 
G 
Find someday 
           Em                      D 
Says he'll check in the Cumberland Gap 
                    C 
Then he's headed on home 
G     D 
Oh Oh Oh Oh 
                C 
He's heading on home 

G  D 

     Em      Dm C 
He's heading on home 
 

Interlude 
G  D 

Dm C 

G  D 


[Verso 4]
 
                      C 
There he stood in the morning light 
         G             D 
Wrinkled edges and his hair snow white 
         Em                C 
Looked at me, said there's more to write 
         G        D 
But it's yours to pen 
                        C 
Headed straight for the sun at last 
       G               D 
Up the hill and he was gone like that 
           Em           C 
Could have sworn that I heard him laugh 
               D 
From the other side 
 

Outro 

I can hear it when 
C 
They say 
Somewhere down south there's a man who's headed 
G 
Sideways 
                        Em 
Sling on his back not a nickle upon his 
C 
Last name 
Just a few hymns and a voice he swears he'll 
G 

Find someday 
           Em                      D 
Says he'll check in the Cumberland Gap 
                    C 
Then he's headed on home