• Song:

    Cumberland Blues

  • Artist:

    Grateful Dead

  • Album:

    Dick's Picks, Volume 35...

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Cumberland Blues -- Grateful Dead (Hunter, Garcia)
 
GI (320003@1)can't stay much longer, Melinda, the sun is getting high,
 
GI (320003@1)can't help you with your troubles if you won't help with mine.
 
F# (244322@1)             Bb (x1333x@1)       B (x2444x@1)  Bb (x1333x@1)           A (x02220@1)  Ab (xx1114@1)GI (320003@1)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.
 
GLotta (320003@1)poor man make a five dollar bill, keep him happy all the time.
 
GSome (320003@1)other fella's makin' nothin' at all and you can hear him cry,
 
C (x32010@1)                           D"Can (xx0232@1)I go buddy, can I go down, take your shift at the mine?"
 
CGotta (x32010@1)get down to the Cumberland mine
 
                       F (133211@1)        C(Gotta (x32010@1)get down to the Cumberland mine)
 
F (133211@1)                                 CThat's (x32010@1)where I mainly spend my time.
 
CMake (x32010@1)good money, five dollars a day,
 
F (133211@1)                             C (x32010@1)Am7 (x02010@1)C7 (x32310@1)Em (022000@1)GMade (320003@1)any more I might move away.
 
G (320003@1)                    C (x32010@1)        GLotta (320003@1)poor man got the Cumberland blues,
 
                 CHe (x32010@1)can't win for losin',
 
C (x32010@1)                                A (x02220@1)                    DLotta (xx0232@1)poor man got to walk the line just to pay his union dues,
 
C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)                C (x32010@1)           Am7 (x02010@1)    GI (320003@1)don't know now, I just don't know, if I'm goin' back again.



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