Cumberland Blues original guitar chords by
Grateful Dead 
Key: G major•
Intro 1
G7
G7
G7
G7
G7
G7
G7
Verse 1
The sun is getting high
If you won't help with mine
Bb
B
I gotta get down
Bb
A
C
G7
Gotta get down to, to the mine
Verse 2
I can't stop here no more
You kept me up till four
Bb
B
I gotta get down
Bb
A
C
G7
Or I can't work there no more
Solo 1
G7
G7
G7
G7
G7
G7
G7
G7
G7
G7
G7
Verse 3
Will keep him happy all the time
G7
Some other fellow's making nothing at all
Bridge 1
And you can hear him cry
Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine
C
Am
Em
Interlude 1
G
G
G
G
Verse 4
C
G
Lotta poor man got the Cumberland Blues
A7
D
Just to pay his union dues
Outro 1
C
D7
I don't know now, I just don't know
C
G
If I'm coming back again
C
D7
I don't know now, I just don't know
C
G
If I'm coming back again
C
D7
I don't know now, I just don't know
C
G
If I'm coming back again
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG7 F# Bb B A...
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