Chords - v1

Cumberland Blues

G

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.

F#                                 Bb      B

I gotta get down, I gotta get down,

Bb                A         Ab        G

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 to eight; You kept me up 'till four.

I gotta get down, I gotta get down, Or I can't work there no more.

A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill,

Will keep him happy all the time.

Some other fella's makin nothin' at all

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.

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