Cumberland Blues - Grateful Dead

Dave's Picks Vol. 16
Springfield Civic Center, Springfield, MA
03/28/1973
Lyrics:
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
I gotta get down
I gotta get down
Got to 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 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
Keep him happy all the time
Some other fellow making nothing at all
And you can hear him cryin...
"Can I go buddy
Can I go down
Take your shift at the mine?"
Got to get down to the Cumberland mine
That's where I mainly spend my time
Make good money/five dollars a day
Made any more I might move away -
Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues
He can't win for losin
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 goin back again
I don't know now
I just don't know
If I'm goin back again

[@daskitten1]

One of my favorite tunes, I've never heard a version I didn't love, & this one really feels good.
Love how abstract Phil can get with an uptempo country/rockabilly tune...

[@SunshinePeterman]

That looks like my house looooool

[@jimmyjam6764]

Hahahaha did not expect to read that

[@TheOferwexenfeld]

iloveit

[@SunshinePeterman]

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