Cumberland Blues
  ----------------
    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 mi-ine.
    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.
    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 git down to the Cumberland Mine.
  Gotta git down to the Cumberland Mine.
  That's where I mainly spend my time.
  Make good money, five dollars a day.
  Make anymore, I might move away.
    A lot of poor man got the Cumberland Blues
  He can't win for losin'
  Lot of poor man got to walk that line
  Just to pay their union dues.
    I don't know now, I just don't know
  If I'm goin' back again.
    I don't know now, I just don't know
  If I'm goin' back again.
    I don't know now, I just don't know
  If I'm goin' back again.