Cumberland Blues

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,

"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.