I can't stay here much longer, Melinda
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The sun is getting high
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I can't help you with your troubles
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If you won't help with mine
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I gotta get down
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I gotta get down
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Gotta get down to the mine
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You keep me up just one more night
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I can't stop here no more
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Little Ben clock says quarter to eight
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You kept me up till four
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I gotta get down
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I gotta get down
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Or I can't work there no more
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Lotta poor man make a five dollar bill
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Will keep him happy all the time
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Some other fellow's making nothing at all
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And you can hear him cry
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Can I go, buddy, can I go down
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Take your shift at the mine
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Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine
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Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine
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That's where I mainly spend my time
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Make good money, five dollars a day
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If I made any more I might move away
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Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues
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He can't win for losing
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Lotta poor man got to walk the line
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Just to pay his union dues
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I don't know now, I just don't know
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If I'm coming back again
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I don't know now, I just don't know
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If I'm coming back again
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I don't know now, I just don't know
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If I'm coming back again
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