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 get down, I gotta get down to the 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 again.