Cumberland Blues

[00:21.74] I can't stay much longer, Melinda
[00:23.77] The sun is getting high
[00:27.06] I can't help you with your troubles
[00:31.56] If you won't help with mine
[00:33.51] I gotta get down, I gotta get down
[00:40.25] Gotta get down to mine
[00:49.92] You keep me up just one more night
[00:53.38] I can't sleep here no more
[00:57.42] Little Ben clock says quarter to eight
[01:01.25] You kept me up till four
[01:05.48] I gotta get down, I gotta get down
[01:09.53] Or I can't work there no more
[01:38.90] A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill
[01:42.05] Keep him happy all the time
[01:45.87] Some other fella's makin' nothin' at all
[01:49.72] And you can hear him cry
[01:53.78] "Can I go, buddy, can I go down
[01:57.88] Take your shift at the mine?"
[02:01.69] Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine
[02:05.32] Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine
[02:15.21] That's where I mainly spend my time
[02:15.83] Make good money, five dollars a day
[02:16.90] Made anymore, I might move away
[02:30.67] Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues
[02:33.52] He can't win for losin'
[02:37.44] Lotta poor man got to walk the line
[02:41.35] Just to pay his union dues
[02:45.41] I don't know now, I just don't know
[02:49.51] If I'm goin' back again
[02:53.94] I don't know now, I just don't know
[02:57.51] If I'm goin' back again
[03:01.64] I don't know now, I just don't know
[03:06.32] If I'm goin' back again
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