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I can't stay much longer, Melinda |
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The sun is getting high |
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I can't help you with your troubles |
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If you won't help with mine |
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I gotta get down, I gotta get down |
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I gotta get down to, to the mine |
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You keep me up just one more night |
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I can't sleep here no more |
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Little Ben, clock says quarter to eight |
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You kept me up 'til four |
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I gotta get down, I gotta get down |
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Or I can't work there no more |
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A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill |
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Keeps him happy all the time |
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Some other fella's makin' nothin' at all |
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And you can hear him cry |
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"Can I go, buddy, can I go down |
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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 |
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Made anymore, I might move away |
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Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues |
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He can't win for losin' |
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Lotta poor man got to walk the line |
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Just to pay his union dues |
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I don't know now, I just don't know |
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If I'm goin' back again |
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I don't know now, I just don't know |
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If I'm goin' back again |
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I don't know now, I just don't know |
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If I'm goin' back again |