Cumberland Blues -- Grateful Dead (Hunter Garcia) 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 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. Lotta poor man make a five dollar bill keep him happy all the time. Some other fella’s makin’ nothin’ 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 losin’ 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 goin’ back again.