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.