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Up On Cripple Creek lyrics
Songwriters: Robertson, Robbie;

When I get off of this mountain
You know where I want to go
Straight down the Mississippi river
To the Gulf of Mexico
To Lake Charles Louisiana
Little Bessie, girl that I once knew
She told me just to come on by
If there s anything that she could do

Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
If I spring a leak, she mends me
I don t have to speak, as she defends me
A drunkard s dream if I ever did see one

Good luck had just stung me
To the race track I did go
She bet on one horse to win
And I bet on another to show
The odds were in my favor
I had em five to one
When that nag to win came around the track
Sure enough we had won

Up on Cripple Creek, as she sends me
If I spring a leak, as she mends me
I don t have to speak, as she defends me
A drunkard s dream if I ever did see one

I took up all of my winnings
And I gave my little Bessie half
And she tore it up and threw it in my face
Just for a laugh
Now there s one thing in the whole wide world
I sure would like to see
That s when that little love of mine
Dips her doughnut in my tea

Up on Cripple Creek, as she sends me
If I spring a leak, as she mends me
I don t have to speak, as she defends me
A drunkard s dream if I ever did see one

Now me and my mate were back at the shack
We had Spike Jones on the box
She said, "I can t take the way he sings
But I love to hear him talk"
Now that just gave my heart a throb
To the bottom of my feet
And I swore as I took another pull
My Bessie can t be beat

Up on Cripple Creek, as she sends me
If I spring a leak, as she mends me
I don t have to speak, as she defends me
A drunkard s dream if I ever did see one

As there s a flood out in California
And up North it s freezing cold
And this living on the road
Is getting pretty old
So I guess, I ll call up my big mama
Tell her I ll be rolling in
But you know, deep down
I m kind of tempted
To go and see my Bessie again

Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
If I spring a leak, she mends me
I don t have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard s dream if I ever did see one
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