Tablature cumberland blues - Grateful Dead

          



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  Cumberland Blues -- Grateful Dead (Hunter, Garcia)

   

  G

  I can't stay much longer, Melinda, the sun is getting high,

   

  G

  I can't help you with your troubles if you won't help with mine.

   

  F#               Bb         B    Bb             A    Ab  G

  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.

   

  G

  Lotta poor man make a five dollar bill, keep him happy all the time.

   

  G

  Some other fella's makin' nothin' at all and you can hear him cry,

   

  C                             D

  "Can I go buddy, can I go down, 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  G

  Made any more I might move away.

   

  G                      C          G

  Lotta poor man got the Cumberland blues,

   

                   C

  He can't win for losin',

   

  C                                  A                      D

  Lotta poor man got to walk the line just to pay his union dues,

   

  C                D                  C             Am7      G

  I don't know now, I just don't know, if I'm goin' back again.

  

   


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 Cumberland blues, de Grateful dead 

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