Cumberland Blues
Grateful Dead • Key:
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Cumberland Blues
Grateful Dead
G
I can't stay much longer, Melinda, the sun is getting high,
G
I can't help you with your troubles if you won't help with mine.
F#
I gotta get down,
Bb
I gotta ge
B
t dow
Bb
n, I gotta get
A
down
Ab
to t
G
he 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.
G
Lotta poor man make a five dollar bill, keep him happy all the time.
G
Some other fella's makin' nothin' at all and you can hear him cry,
C
"Can I go buddy, can I go down
D
, take your shift at the mine?"
C
Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine
(Gotta get down to the
F
Cumberland
C
mine)
F
That's where I mainly spend my time.
C
Make good money, five dollars a day,
F
Made any more I might move away.
C
Am7
C7
Em
G
Lotta poor man got the
C
Cumberland
G
blues,
He can't win for
C
losin',
C
Lotta poor man got to walk the line
A
just to pay his union
D
dues,
C
I don't know now,
D
I just don't know,
C
if I'm goin'
Am7
back agai
G
n.
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