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, 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 lotta poor man make a five dollar bill
But keep him happy all the time
Some other fella's making 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 any more, I might move away
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
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