Up On Cripple Creek Lyrics

Up On Cripple Creek lyrics

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 she could do

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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

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 she had
won

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I took up all of my winnings, and I gave my little
Bessie half
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

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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 and I took another pull, my Bessie can't be
beat

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Now 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.

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