{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 temptedTo [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]
