Cumberland Blues lyrics
Song information
Artist: Grateful Dead Album: Europe '72
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 lotta poor man make a five dollar bill, keep him happy all the time Some other fella's makin' nothin' 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 losin' 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 goin' back again
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