Cumberland Sound E A This old hound is St. Mary?s bound B A E And this old hound has still got a ways to go E A Spend the first half of your just trying to run away B E B Spend the second half just trying to get back home Chorus: E A To the Cumberland Sound B E Someday I'll cross that river and settle down C#m A B E F#min Like voices from the timber, I can't get it out of my head A It's all I hear
E A B E E A Cotton ain't the king no more, Kudzu is B A E It's swallowing up the land and choking off the life E A Inch by inch it pushed me to the precipice B E B Gonna wade right in that water and float on down Chorus: E A This old hound is St. Mary?s bound B A E And this old hound ain't nowhere near there yet E A But the ground been frozen since the new year B E B And the cold dry airs like Arsenic in my veins Chorus: E A Cumberland Sound E A Cumberland Sound C#m A B E