From the recording Cameron Summers Sings Folk Songs
Lyrics
Lay down boys, take a little nap, 16 miles to the Cumberland gap
Cumberland gap, Cumberland gap, 16 miles to the Cumberland gap
Me and my wife, and my wife's pap, we all live at the Cumberland gap
Cumberland gap, Cumberland gap, we all live at the Cumberland gap
Get me money and buy me a farm, I'll raise sweet 'taters just as long as your arm
Long as your arm, long as your arm, I'll raise sweet 'taters just as long as your arm
Cumberland gap's not my home, I'm gonna leave old Cumberland alone
Cumberland gap's a devil of a place, can't get no water for to wash my face
Cumberland gap, Cumberland gap, I ain't going back to no Cumberland Gap