Grateful Dead - Cumberland Blues Lyrics

Send "Cumberland Blues" Ringtone to Cell Phone

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.

Send "Cumberland Blues" Ringtone to Cell Phone

lyrics submitted by CosmicBri on 30-12-2005