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,

Sing with the song of Grateful Dead, Cumberland Blues lyrics!

"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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american beauty anthem of the sun aoxomoxoa blues for allah built to last dead set dreamers europe '72 go to heaven grateful dead (skull & roses) grateful dead from the mars hotel history of the grateful dead, vol. 1 (be in the dark infrared roses my so-called life reckoning shakedown street steal your face terrapin station the grateful dead very best of grateful dead wake of the flood without a net workingman's dead Click here to view All Albums and Song Lyrics of Grateful Dead!