Biography:
Jason Isbell is an alt-country singer /songwriter /guitarist from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Best known for his years with the Drive-By Truckers where he played with his then wife, bassist Shonna Tucker. Isbell - who joined the Truckers in 2001 - left the band in early 2007 around the same time as his divorce from Tucker was finalized.
In addition to being a gifted songwriter, Isbell is regarded as an exceptional guitar player. His style is mostly in the alt-country genre, but is also infused with rock and blues elements.
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Other songs:
- Alabama Pines
- Codeine
- We've Met
- 24 Frames
- Anxiety
- Chaos And Clothes
- Chicago Prominade
- Children Of Children
- Cigarettes And Wine
- Cover Me Up
- Cumberland Gap
- Daisy Mae
- Danko Manuel
- Decoration Day
- Devil Is My Running Mate
- Different Days
- Dress Blues
- Elephant
- Flagship
- Flying Over Water
- Go It Alone
- God Is A Working Man
- Goddamn Lonely Love
- Good
- Grown
- Heart On A String
- Hope The High Road
- How To Forget
- However Long
- Hudson Commodore
- Hurricanes And Hand Grenades
- I Follow Rivers
- If I Needed You
- If It Takes A Lifetime
- If We Were Vampires
- Last Of My Kind
- Live Oak
- Molotov
- Mutineer
- Never Could Believe
- New South Wales
- Old Flame
- Outfit
- Palmetto Rose
- Relatively Easy
- Save It For Sunday
- Seven Mile Island
- Shotgun Wedding
- Soldiers Get Strange
- Something More Than Free
- Something To Love
- Songs That She Sang In The Shower
- Speed Trap Town
- Stockholm
- Stopping By
- Streetlights
- Sunstroke
- Super 8
- The Blue
- The Devil Is My Running Mate
- The Last Song I Will Write
- The Life You Chose
- The Magician
- The Pilgrim
- To A Band That I Loved
- Tour Of Duty
- Traveling Alone
- Tupelo
- Weve Met
- White Mans World
- Yvette
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[Intro]
Am D Am
Am D Am
Am D Am
Am D Am
Am D Am F F F G
[Verse 1]
Am
There’s an answer here if I look hard enough
G
There’s a reason I always reach for the harder stuff
Am
It wasn’t my daddy’s way. He was down in the mines all day
G
And though he wanted more than mouths to feed and bills to pay
[Chorus 1]
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
[Verse 2]
Am
I ain’t cut out for war unless I know what I’m fightin’ for
G
And there’s nothing here but churches, bars and grocery stores
Am
There ain’t much money here in the Old Time Mandolin
G
So I cash my check and I drink till I’m on my ass again
[Chorus 2]
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
[Bridge]
Bb C
Remember when we could see the mountain's peak?
Bb C
The sparkle off the amphibole?
Bb C
Like a giant golden eagle's beak
Bb G
Now they say no one wants the coal
[Verse 3]
Am
I thought about moving away But what would my mama say?
G
I'm all that she has left and I'm with her every day
Am
As soon as the sun goes down I find my way to the Mustang Lounge
G
And if you don't sit facing the window You could be in any town
[Chorus 3]
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
[Outro]
Am Am Am
Am D Am
Am D Am
Am D Am
Am D Am
Am D Am F F F G
[Verse 1]
Am
There’s an answer here if I look hard enough
G
There’s a reason I always reach for the harder stuff
Am
It wasn’t my daddy’s way. He was down in the mines all day
G
And though he wanted more than mouths to feed and bills to pay
[Chorus 1]
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
[Verse 2]
Am
I ain’t cut out for war unless I know what I’m fightin’ for
G
And there’s nothing here but churches, bars and grocery stores
Am
There ain’t much money here in the Old Time Mandolin
G
So I cash my check and I drink till I’m on my ass again
[Chorus 2]
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
[Bridge]
Bb C
Remember when we could see the mountain's peak?
Bb C
The sparkle off the amphibole?
Bb C
Like a giant golden eagle's beak
Bb G
Now they say no one wants the coal
[Verse 3]
Am
I thought about moving away But what would my mama say?
G
I'm all that she has left and I'm with her every day
Am
As soon as the sun goes down I find my way to the Mustang Lounge
G
And if you don't sit facing the window You could be in any town
[Chorus 3]
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
F C G
Maybe the Cumberland Gap just swallows you whole
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