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	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#	Bb	B	Bb	A	Ab	G
	I gotta get down,	I gotta ge	t dow	n, I gotta get	down	to t	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	D
	"Can I go buddy, can I go down	, take your shift at the mine?"

	C
	Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine

	F	C
(Gotta get down to the	Cumberland	mine)

	F	C
	That's where I mainly spend my time.

	C
	Make good money, five dollars a day,

	F	C	Am7	C7	Em	G
	Made any more I might move away.

	G	C	G
	Lotta poor man got the	Cumberland	blues,

	C
He can't win for	losin',

	C	A	D
	Lotta poor man got to walk the line	just to pay his union	dues,

	C	D	C	Am7	G
	I don't know now,	I just don't know,	if I'm goin'	back agai	n.

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Cumberland Blues

Grateful Dead

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