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Up on Cripple Creek (Main Song Page)
Up on Cripple Creek
main 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, a girl that I once knew
and she told just to come on by
if there's anything that she could do

[CHORUS]
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
if I spring a leak, she mends me
I don't have to speak, and 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 them five-to-one
and that nag to win came around the track
sure enough he had won

[CHORUS]


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, hee-hee

[CHORUS]

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

[CHORUS]

[yodeling]

There's a flood out in California
and up north it's freezing cold
and this living off 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, deep down, I'm kinda tempted
to go and see my Bessie again

[CHORUS]

[yodeling]
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