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Cumberland Blues (Live at the Empire Pool, Wembley, England) (2022 Remaster)
Grateful Dead
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I can't stay much longer, Melinda
The sun is getting high
I can't help you with your trouble
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 'til four
I gotta get down, I gotta get down
Or I can't work there no more
Lotta poor man make a five-dollar bill
Keeps him happy all the time
Some other fella's making nothing 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
(I 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 down the line
Just to pay his union dues
I don't know now, I just don't know if I'm going back again
I don't know now, I just don't know if I'm going back again
I don't know now, I just don't know if I'm going back again