I can't stay here 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 the mine
You keep me up just one more night
i can't stop 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
Lotta poor man make a five dollar bill
will keep him happy all the time
some other fellow's making nothing 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
that's where i mainly spend my time
Make good money, five dollars a day
if i made any more i might move away
Lotta poor man got the cumberland blues
he can't win for losing
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 coming back again
i don't know now, i just don't know
if i'm coming back again