Up On Cripple Creek lyrics Lyrics

song lyrics Up On Cripple Creek lyrics Songwriters: Robertson, Robbie; When I get off of this mountain You know where I want to go Straight down the Mississippi river To the Gulf of Mexico To Lake Charles Louisiana Little Bessie, girl that I once knew She told me just to come on by If there s anything that she could do Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me If I spring a leak, she mends me I don t have to speak, as she defends me A drunkard s dream if I ever did see one 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 The odds were in my favor I had em five to one When that nag to win came around the track Sure enough we had won Up on Cripple Creek, as she sends me If I spring a leak, as she mends me I don t have to speak, as she defends me A drunkard s dream if I ever did see one 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 Up on Cripple Creek, as she sends me If I spring a leak, as she mends me I don t have to speak, as she defends me A drunkard s dream if I ever did see one 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 as I took another pull My Bessie can t be beat Up on Cripple Creek, as she sends me If I spring a leak, as she mends me I don t have to speak, as she defends me A drunkard s dream if I ever did see one As there s a flood out in California And up North it s freezing cold And this living on 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 kind of tempted To go and see my Bessie again 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 song lyrics