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Cumberland Mountain Number Nine

This version of Cumberland Mountain Number Nine was released by The Charlie Daniels Band in 1976.

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Baby don’t ya cry ’cause momma’s coming home
Poppa goin’ bring you back some chitlins and some corn
Last frost done took its loss right down to the bone
We’re lucky we still got room to roam

Goin’ there to here is almost at a halt
Don’t you go off blaming God, you know it ain’t his fault
One time when life was fine someone found the wine
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That still was the best damn still they ever did make
Wouldn’t stand for nothing less, stand for no mistake
Last Fall we made a haul and filled the limestone mine
Cumberland Mountain Number Nine

Winter come a change
Spring bring the rain
We weren’t meant to stay the same
One thing for sure
We done found the cure,
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Black coal from the strip mine way up north at Jellico
Kept the brew running smooth along the Thunder Road
Way back down in Bear Tree Gap the devil’s juice flowed fine
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The FB- and the TV- I had followed us for years
Eventually they got the scent and nabbed us by the hair
Man said son I’ll blow up everything between your ears
You got to face bout 20 years.

Winter come a change
Spring bring the rain
We weren’t meant to stay the same
And now from this cell
I’ve a story to tell….
Cumberland Mountain Number Nine
Cumberland Mountain Number Nine

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The lyrics to Cumberland Mountain Number Nine are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Charlie Daniels Band used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Cumberland Mountain Number Nine have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Charlie Daniels Band and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Cumberland Mountain Number Nine by The Charlie Daniels Band. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Cumberland Mountain Number Nine" means the words set to the music of Cumberland Mountain Number Nine, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Charlie Daniels Band. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Cumberland Mountain Number Nine and the lyrics to Cumberland Mountain Number Nine are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Charlie Daniels Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Cumberland Mountain Number Nine, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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