{t:UP ON CRIPPLE CREEK }
{st:The Band}
[A] When I get off of this mountain, you [D] know where I want to go?
[A] Straight down the [D] Mississippi River to the [E] Gulf of Mexico.
[A] To Lake Charles, Louisiana, little [D] Bessie, a girl who I once knew.
[A] She told me just to [D] come on by if there's [E] anything that she could do.
{c:Refrain:}
{soc}
[A] Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
[D] If I spring a leak, she mends me.
[E] I don't have to speak, she defends me.
[F#m] A drunkard's dream if I [G] ever did see one.
{eoc}
[A] Good luck had just stung me, to the [D] race track I did go.
[A] She bet on one [D] horse to win and I [E] bet on another to show.
[A] The odds were in my favor, I [D] had them five to one.
[A] That nag to win came [D] around the track, [E] sure enough she had won.
[A] I took up all of my winnings and I [D] gave little Bessie half.
[A] She tore it up and [D] threw it in my face [E] just for a laugh.
[A] There's one thing in the whole wide world I [D] sure would like to see.
[A] That's when that little [D] love of mine dips her [E] doughnut in my tea.
{c:Refrain:}
{soc}
[A] Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
[D] If I spring a leak, she mends me.
[E] I don't have to speak, she defends me.
[F#m] A drunkard's dream if I [G] ever did see one.
{eoc}
{c:Yodel over:}
[A] [D] [A] [D]
[A] Me and my mate we were back at the shack, we had [D] Spike Jones on the box.
[A] She says, "I can't [D] take the way he sings, but I [E] love to hear him talk."
[A] Now that just gave my heart a throb to the [D] bottom of my feet.
[A] And I swore as I [D] took another pull, my [E] Bessie can't be beat.
[A] There's a flood out in California and up [D] north it's freezing cold.
[A] And this living on the [D] road is getting pretty [E] old.
[A] So I guess I'll call up my big mama, tell her [D] I'll be rolling in.
[A] But you know, deep down, [D] I'm kind of tempted
To [E] go and see my Bessie again.
{c:Refrain:}
{soc}
[A] Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
[D] If I spring a leak, she mends me.
[E] I don't have to speak, she defends me.
[F#m] A drunkard's dream if I [G] ever did see one.
{eoc}
{c:Yodel over:}
[A] [D] [A] [D]
