Chordisplay

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.