When
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I get off of this mountain, you
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know where I want to go?
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Straight down the
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Mississippi River to the
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Gulf of Mexico.
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To Lake Charles, Louisianna, little
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Bessie, a girl who I once knew.
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She told me just to
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come on by if there’s
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anything that she could do.
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Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
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If I spring a leak, she mends me.
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I don’t have to speak, she defends me.A
F#m
drunkard’s dream if I
G
ever did see one.
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Good luck had just stung me, to the
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race track I did go.
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She bet on
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one horse to win and I
E
bet on another to show.The
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odds were in my favor, I
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had them five to one.
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That nag to win came a
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round the track,
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sure enough she had won.
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Up on Cripple Creek,she sends me.
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If I spring a leak,she mends me.
E
I don’t have to speak,she defends me.A
F#m
drunkards dream if I ever did see one.
I
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took up all of my winnings and I
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gave little Bessie half.
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She tore it up and
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threw it in my face
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just for a laugh.
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There’s one thing in the whole wide world
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I sure would like to see.
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That’s when that little
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love of mine dips her
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doughnut in my tea.
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Up on Cripple Creek,she sends me.
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If I spring a leak,she mends me.
E
I don’t have to speak,she defends me.A
F#m
drunkards dream if I ever did see one.
A
Me and my mate we were back at the shack, we had
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Spike Jones on the box.
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She says, “I
D
can’t take the way he sings, but I
E
love to hear him talk.”Now
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that just gave my heart a throb to the
D
bottom of my feet.And I
A
swore as I took a
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nother pull, my
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Bessie can’t be beat.
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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.A
F#m
drunkards dream if I ever did see one.
There’s a
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flood out in California and up
D
north it’s freezing cold.
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And this living
D
on the road is
E
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
E
go and see my Bessie again.
These known chords are used in this song.
