Cumberland Blues

[00:28.07] I can't stay much longer, Melinda
[00:45.89] The sun is getting high
[00:49.41] I can't help you with your troubles
[00:53.90] If you won't help with mine
[00:56.92] I gotta get down, I gotta get down
[01:01.99] Gotta get down to mine
[01:06.97] You keep me up just one more night
[01:55.92] I can't sleep here no more
[02:00.13] Little Ben clock says quarter to eight
[02:03.85] You kept me up till four
[02:08.30] I gotta get down, I gotta get down
[02:12.42] Or I can't work there no more
[02:17.54] A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill
[03:40.20] Keep him happy all the time
[03:43.94] Some other fella's makin' nothin' at all
[03:48.32] And you can hear him cry
[03:52.47] "Can I go, buddy, can I go down
[03:57.21] Take your shift at the mine?"
[04:01.13] Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine
[04:04.22] Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine
[04:05.53] That's where I mainly spend my time
[04:07.61] Make good money, five dollars a day
[04:13.34] Made anymore, I might move away
[04:18.38] Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues
[04:58.31] He can't win for losin'
[05:01.88] Lotta poor man got to walk the line
[05:06.38] Just to pay his union dues
[05:10.96] I don't know now, I just don't know
[05:14.65] If I'm goin' back again
[05:18.59] I don't know now, I just don't know
[05:23.54] If I'm goin' back again
[05:27.71] I don't know now, I just don't know
[05:30.39] If I'm goin' back again
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