Cumberland Blues Lyrics

The song Cumberland Blues is performed by The Grateful Dead in the album named Europe '72 in the year 1990 .



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.

A lotta poor man make a five dollar bill, Keep him happy all the time.
Some other fella's makin nothin' 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.
Gotta get down to the Cumberland Mine.
That's where I mainly spend my time.
Make good money, five dollars a day. Made anymore, 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.



The Grateful Dead - Europe '72

Oct 1990

  1. Cumberland Blues
  2. He's Gone
  3. One More Saturday Night
  4. Jack Straw
  5. You Win Again
  6. China Cat Sunflower
  7. I Know You Rider
  8. Brown-Eyed Woman
  9. Hurts Me Too
  10. Ramble On Rose
  11. Sugar Magnolia
  12. Mr. Charlie
  13. Tennessee Jed
  14. Truckin'
  15. Epilogue
  16. Prelude
  17. (Walk Me Out In The) Morning Dew

Cumberland Blues