Cumberland Blues Chords by Grateful Dead

[Start]

[Intro]

[Verse]
G7                                 
■  I can't stay much longer Melinda
        G7             
The sun is getting high
  G7                               
I can't help you with your troubles
                       Gb7 
If you won't help with mine


[Chorus]
                   B         Bb  
I gotta get down I gotta get down
A7             Am7 G7  
Gotta get down to  mine
         G7                       
You keep me up just one more night
        G7                
I can't sleep here no more
       G7                             
Little Ben clock says quarter to eight
         G7             
You kept me up till four
Gb7             Bb     B7        B   
■   I gotta get down I gotta get down
Bb   A7                  G   
Or I can't work there no more


[Inst]
Em G7 C7 G7
■  ■  ■  ■ 


[Verse]
  G7                                    
A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill
     G7                    
Keep him happy all the time
G                                       
Some other fella's makin' nothin' at all
                     C  
And you can hear him cry


[Chorus]
C                           
Can I go buddy can I go down
D                          
Take your shift at the mine
          D                          
Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine
C                     F          C   
Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine
F                                  
That's where I mainly spend my time
G C                              G   C
■ Make good money five dollars a day ■
F                         C    Am Em G
Made anymore I might move away ■  ■  ■
               C       G               
Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues
             C         
He can't win for losin'
                   G                A7
Lotta poor man got to walk the line ■ 
A               D     C   
Just to pay his union dues
             D                C   
I don't know now I just don't know
             G         
If I'm goin' back again
C              D                C   
■ I don't know now I just don't know
             G         
If I'm goin' back again
C              D                C   
■ I don't know now I just don't know
             G         
If I'm goin' back again


[End]