Cumberland Blues / The Grateful Dead ~ lyrics and guitar chords

Cumberland Blues

The Grateful Dead

G7 (x4)
          G7
          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

                    Gb7                       Bb          B
                        I gotta get down, I gotta get down
                    Bb                A      Ab      G7
                        Gotta get down to the mine
                                                                          G7 jam (x4)

          You keep me up just one more night
          I can't stay here no more
          Little Ben clock says a quarter to eight
          You kept me up 'til four

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

      G7
          A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill
          To keep him happy all the time
          Some other fellas they got nothin' at all
          And you can hear him cry

     (G)(A)(B) C 
                        Can I go buddy, can I go buddy
                      D
                        Take your shift at the mine

                                      C                                                                 C F C
                                      Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine
                                   F                                                               (F)(G)(A)
                                      That's where I mainly spend my time
                                      C 
                                      Make good money, five dollars a day
                                      F                                                           Am G
                                      Made any more, I might move away~~
                                                                                                    (E)(F)(F#) G (x4)

        G                                         C                  G
          A lotta poor man got the Cumberland blues
                                     C        (G)(A)(B)
          He can't win for losin'
        C                                      G                   (G)(A)(B)
          A lotta poor man gotta walk the line 
        A                                  D
          Just to pay his union dues

                       C                           D                          C        C/B    Am     G      (G)(A)(B)
                        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...
                                                                                                                               C  G

   Chords:
          G7 Gb7 Bb B  A  Ab  C  D  F  G  Am C/B
      e |-3---2---------------0--2--1--3--0---0--
      B |-3---2--3--4--2--1---1--3--1--0--1---1--
      G |-4---3--3--4--2--1---0--2--2--0--2---0--
      D |-3---2--3--4--2--1---2--0--3--0--2---0--
      A |-5---4--1--2--0------3--0--3--2--0---2--
      E |-3---2---------------------1--3---------

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