Cumberland Blues

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I can't stay much longer, Melinda, 
the sun is getting high,
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I can't help you with your troubles 
if you won't help with mine.
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I gotta get down, I gotta get 
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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 'til 
eight, you kept me up 'til four.
I gotta get down, I gotta get down, 
or I can't work there no more.

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Lotta poor man make a five dollar 
bill, keep him happy all the time.
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Some other fella's makin' nothin' at
 all and you can hear him cry,
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"Can I go buddy, can I go down, take
 your shift at the mine?"
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Gotta get down to the Cumberland 
mine
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(Gotta get down to the Cumberland 
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mine)
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That's where I mainly spend my 
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time.
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Make good money, five dollars a day,
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Made any more I might move away.
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Lotta poor man got the Cumberland 
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blues,
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He can't win for losin',
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Lotta poor man got to walk the 
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line just to pay his union dues,
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I don't know now, I just don't 
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know, if I'm goin' back again.