Up On Cripple Creek
The Band
When [A] I get off of this mountain, you [D] know where I want to go?
[A] Straight down the [D] Mississippi River to the [E7] Gulf of Mexico.
[A] To Lake Charles, Louisianna, little [D] Bessie, a girl who I once knew.
[A] She told me just to [D]come on by if there's [E7] anything that she could do.
Chorus:
[A] Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
[D] If I spring a leak, she mends me.
[E7] I don't have to speak, she defends me.
A [F#m] drunkard's dream if I [G] ever did see one.
[A] Good luck had just stung me, to the [D] race track I did go.
[A] She bet on [D] one horse to win and I [E7] bet on another to show.
The [A] odds were in my favor, I [D] had them five to one.
[A] That nag to win came [D] round the track, [E7] sure enough she had won.
Chorus:
I [A] 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 [E7] just for a laugh.
[A] There's one thing in the whole wide world [D] I sure would like to see.
[A] That's when that little [D] love of mine dips her [E7] doughnut in my tea.
Chorus:
[A] Me and my mate we were back at the shack, we had [D] Spike Jones on the box.
[A] She says, "I [D] can't take the way he sings, but I [E7] love to hear him talk."
Now [A] that just gave my heart a throb to the [D] bottom of my feet.
And I [A] swore as I took [D] nother pull, my [E7] Bessie can't be beat.
Chorus:
There's a [A] flood out in California and up [D] north it's freezing cold
[A] And this living [D] on the road is [E7] getting pretty old.
So I [A] guess I'll call up my big mama, [D] tell her I'll be rolling in.
But you [A] know, deep down, I'm [D] kind of tempted to [E7] go and see my Bessie again.
[A] Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
[D] If I spring a leak, she mends me.
[E7] I don't have to speak, she defends me.
A [F#m] drunkard's dream if I [G] ever did see one. [A]
