Lyrics Cumberland Blues (2023 Mickey Hart Mix) - Grateful Dead

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
Gotta get down to the woo-ooh (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 'till four
I gotta get down, I gotta get down
Or I can't work there no more

A lot of poor man make a five dollar bill
A-keep him happy all the time
Some other fella's makin' 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
(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, hey-ey-ey

Lotta poor man got the Cumberland blues
He can't win for losing
Lotta poor man got to walk 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