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,
I gotta 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.

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 c__berland Mine.
Gotta get down to the c__berland 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 c__berland 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.

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