Cumberland Blues

Cumberland Blues Key: G

G I can’t stay much longer, Melinda, G The sun is getting high. G I can’t help you with your troubles, G If you won’t help with mine. F# A# B I gotta get down, I gotta get down, A# A G# G Gotta get down to to the mine.

G You keep me up just one more night, G I can’t sleep here no more. G Little Ben clock says quarter to eight; G You kept me up ‘till four. F# A# B I gotta get down, I gotta get down, A# A G# G Or I can’t work there no more.

G A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill, G Will keep him happy all the time. G Some other fella’s makin nothin’ at all G And you can hear him cry, C “Can I go, buddy, can I go down D 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 Made anymore, I might move away.

G

G C G Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues G C (SN BASS F#^G A B C) He can’t win for losin’ C G (SN BASS F#^G G G# A) Lotta poor man got to walk the line A D Just to pay his union dues.

C D I don’t know now, I just don’t know C Am7 G If I’m goin’ back again.