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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Jerry Garcia
Lead Guitar
Phil Lesh
Vocals
Donna Jean Godchaux
Background Vocals
Mickey Hart
Drums
Bob Weir
Guitar
David Nelson
Acoustic Guitar
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Grateful Dead
Producer
Ron Wickersham
Engineer
Susan Wickersham
Engineer
Betty Cantor
Producer
Bob Matthews
Producer
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
Gotta get down to 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
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
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
Writer(s): Robert C. Hunter, Jerome J. Garcia, Philip Lesh
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