Cumberland Blues - Live at Oregon State University, 1970

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
 Gotta get down to 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
 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 anymore, 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
 I don't know now, I just don't know
 If I'm goin' back again
 I don't know now, I just don't know
 If I'm goin' back again