Cumberland chords

Josh Ritter

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Simplify chords 

Capo: 4st fret

  			 


C/G                     F 
All of my friends said "What's out in Cumberland?" 
C/G                        G 
"Gonna get lonesome when you get out to Cumberland" 
C/G                     F 
"Stay in the city, boy, winter is a wonderland" 
C/G                 G 
They all mean well, I will remember them 

C/G          F                        C/G          G 
Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now, country now 
C/G          F                       C/G      G   C/G 
Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now 

C/G                              F 
Wander through the holler, honey, wander through the glen 
C/G                          G 
Neighborly with fiddleheads, copperheads, and moccasins 
C/G                          F 
Build a little cabin, honey, throw a window in 
C/G                                  G 
Watch the breeze blowin' through the hickories and dandellins’ 

C/G     F                       C/G          G 
Oh boy get yourself back to the country now, country now 
C/G          F                       C/G       G   C/G 
Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now 

C/G (mute)                       C/G    F   C/G 
If you get there before I do 
C/G (mute)                              C/G  F  C/G 
Tell everybody I'm a 'coming too 

C/G     G     C/G    F     C/G G C/G 

C/G                              F 
I know a pretty girl, she's the prettiest there's ever been 
C/G             G 
Wild as a weed, sweeter than a mandolin 
C/G                       Fsus2 
I ain't a handsome man but I bet she'd take me as I am 
C/G                        G 
I haven't met her yet but I bet she lives in Cumberland 

C/G     F                        C/G          G 
Oh boy get yourself back to the country now, country now 
C/G          F                        C/G       G   C/G 
Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now 

C/G                                   F 
So before you start talkin' 'bout the wonders of the world again 
C/G                               G 
The Taj Mahal, the Great Wall, the places that I never been 
C/G                           F 
Take a little drive, take a little trip to heaven and 
C/G                        G 
Wonder for a while if it's paradise or Cumberland 

C/G     F                        C/G          G 
Oh boy get yourself back to the country now, country now 
C/G          F                        C/G      G   C/G 
Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now 

C/G          F                        C/G          G 
Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now, country now 
C/G          F                        C/G      G   C/G 
Oh boy gotta get yourself back to the country now 

C/G     F     C/G  G  C/G