Up On Cripple Creek

The Band

• AA
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• ADADEADADE
  S1:
  When I get off of this mountain 

  You know where I wanna go 

  Straight down the Mississippi River 

  To the Gulf of Mexico 

  To Lake Charles, Louisiana 

  Little Bessie, girl that I once knew 

  And she told me just to come on by 

  If there's anything she could do
• ADEF♯miGG
  R1:
  Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me 

  If I spring a leak, she mends me 

  I don't have to speak, she defends me 

  A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one 

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• ADADEADADE
  S2:
  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 

  Odds were in my favor 

  I had 'em five to one 

  And that nag to win came around the track 

  Sure enough we had won 
• ADEF♯miGG
  R1:
  Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me 

  If I spring a leak, she mends me 

  I don't have to speak, she defends me 

  A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one 

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• ADADEADADE
  S3:
  I took up all of my winnings 

  And I gave my little Bessie half 

  And 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
• ADEF♯miGG
  R1:
  Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me 

  If I spring a leak, she mends me 

  I don't have to speak, she defends me 

  A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one 

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• ADADEADADE
  S4:
  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 and I took another pull 

  My Bessie can't be beat
• ADEF♯miGG
  R1:
  Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me 

  If I spring a leak, she mends me 

  I don't have to speak, she defends me 

  A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one 

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• ADADADAD
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• ADADEADADE
  S5:
  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 know, deep down, I'm kinda tempted 

  To go and see my Bessie again
• ADEF♯miGG
  R1:
  Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me 

  If I spring a leak, she mends me 

  I don't have to speak, she defends me 

  A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one 

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• ADAD
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