Cumberland Blues (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

[00:14.68] I can't stay much longer, Melinda
[00:18.44] The sun is getting high
[00:22.74] I can't help you with your troubles
[00:26.59] If you won't help with mine
[00:31.29] I gotta get down, I gotta get down
[00:35.45] Gotta get down to the woo-ooh (to the mine)
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[00:48.94] You keep me up just one more night
[00:52.81] I can't sleep here no more
[00:57.03] Little Ben clock says quarter to eight
[01:00.86] You kept me up 'till four
[01:05.65] I gotta get down, I gotta get down
[01:09.55] Or I can't work there no more
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[01:39.50] A lot of poor man make a five dollar bill
[01:43.66] A-keep him happy all the time
[01:47.50] Some other fella's makin' nothing at all
[01:51.69] And you can hear him cry
[01:55.76] "Can I go, buddy, can I go down
[01:59.78] Take your shift at the mine?"
[02:03.37] Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine
[02:05.72] (Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine)
[02:07.42] That's where I mainly spend my time
[02:13.07] Make good money, five dollars a day
[02:17.16] Made anymore, I might move away, hey-ey-ey
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[02:31.44] Lotta poor man got the Cumberland blues
[02:35.66] He can't win for losing
[02:39.61] Lotta poor man got to walk the line
[02:43.76] Just to pay his union dues
[02:47.88] I don't know now, I just don't know
[02:51.96] If I'm going back again
[02:56.05] I don't know now, I just don't know
[03:00.13] If I'm going back again
[03:04.24] I don't know now, I just don't know
[03:08.40] If I'm going back again
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