The Grateful Dead - Cumberland Blues lyrics

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[The Grateful Dead - Cumberland Blues lyrics]

I can't stay much longer, Melinda
The sun is getting high
I can't help you with your troubles
If you won't help with mine
I gotta get down, I gotta get down
I gotta get down to the mine
You keep me up just one more night
I can't sleep here no more
Little Ben clock says quarter to eight
You kept me up 'till four
I gotta get down, I gotta get down
Or I can't work there no more

A lot of poor man make a five dollar bill
Keep him happy all the time
Some other fella's making nothing at all
And you can hear him cry "Can I go, buddy
Can I go down take your shift at the mine?"

Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine
Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine

That's where I mainly spend my time
Make good money, five dollars a day
Made anymore, I might move away

Lotta poor man got the Cumberland blues
He can't win for losing
Lotta poor man got to walk the line
Just to pay his union dues i don't know now
I just don't know if I'm going back again
I don't know now
I just don't know if I'm going back again
I don't know now
I just don't know if I'm going back again

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