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SOL
I can't stay much longer, Melinda, the sun is getting high,
SOL
I can't help you with your troubles if you won't help with mine.
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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.
SOL
Lotta poor man make a five dollar bill, keep him happy all the time.
SOL
Some other fella's makin' nothin' at all and you can hear him cry,
DO RE
"Can I go buddy, can I go down, take your shift at the mine?"
DO
Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine
FA DO
(Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine)
FA DO
That's where I mainly spend my time.
DO
Make good money, five dollars a day,
FA DO LAm7 DO7 MIm SOL
Made any more I might move away.
SOL DO SOL
Lotta poor man got the Cumberland blues,
DO
He can't win for losin',
DO LA RE
Lotta poor man got to walk the line just to pay his union dues,
DO RE DO LAm7 SOL
I don't know now, I just don't know, if I'm goin' back again.
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