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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 down, i gotta get down to the mine. |
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You keep me up just one more night, i can't sleep here no more. |
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Little ben clock says quarter to eight; you kept me up 'till four. |
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I gotta get down, i gotta get down, or i can't work there no more. |
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A 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 mine. |
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That's where i mainly spend my time. |
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Make good money, five dollars a day. made anymore, i might move away. |
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Lotta poor man got the cumberland blues he can't win for losin' |
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Lotta poor man got to walk the line just to pay his union dues. |
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I don't know now, i just don't know if i'm goin' back again. |
![Cumberland Blues [Live at Wembley Empire Pool, London, England, April 8, 1972]](/storage/19/188179.jpg "Cumberland Blues [Live at Wembley Empire Pool, London, England, April 8, 1972]")