Up On Cripple Creek

[Verse 1]
     A5
When I get off of this mountain,
    D5
you know where I want to go?
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  Straight down the Mississippi river,
       E5
to the Gulf of Mexico,
   A5
To Lake Charles, Louisiana,
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little Bessie girl I once knew.
A5                        D5
  And she told me just to come on by,
           E5
if there's anything that she could do.

[Chorus]
A5
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me.
D5
If I spring a leak, she mends me.
E5
I don't have to speak, she defends me.
  F#m                   G5
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.

[Verse 2]
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Good luck had just stung me,
       D5
to the race track I did go.
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  She bet on one  horse to win and I bet on another to
show.
    A5
The odds were in my favor,
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I had 'em five to one.
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  And that nag to win  came around the track,
E5
sure enough we had won.

[Chorus]
A
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me.
D5
If I spring a leak, she mends me.
E5
I don't have to speak, she defends me.
  F#m                   G5
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.

[Verse 3]
  A5
I took up all of my winnings,
          D5
and I gave  my little Bessie half.
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  She tore it up and threw it in my face,
E5
just for a laugh.
     A5
Now, there's one thing in the whole wide world,
D5
I sure would like to see,.
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  That's when that little love  of mine dips her doughnut
in my tea.

[Chorus]
A
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me.
D5
If I spring a leak, she mends me.
E5
I don't have to speak, she defends me.
  F#m                   G5
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.

[Verse 4]
    A5
Now me and my mate were back at the shack,
       D5
we had Spike Jones on the box.
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  She said, "I can't take the way he sings,
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but I love to hear him talk".
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Now that just gave my heart a throb,
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to the bottom of my feet.
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  And I swore as I took  another pull,
   E5
my Bessie can’t be beat.

[Chorus]
A5
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me.
D5
If I spring a leak, she mends me.
E5
I don't have to speak, she defends me.
  F#m                   G5
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.

[Bridge]
A5       D5   A                        D5 A
  Oh no, ooh. Yodel, yodel, yo hee hee.   Yodel hee.
D5 A                    D5
   Yodel, yodel, yo hee hee.

[Verse 5]
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There's a flood out in California and up north  it's
freezing cold.
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  And this living off  the road is getting pretty old.
          A5
So I guess  I'll call up my big mama,
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tell her I'll  be rolling in.
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But you know, deep down,
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I'm kind of tempted
   E5
To go and see my Bessie again.

[Chorus]
A5
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me.
D5
If I spring a leak, she mends me.
E5
I don't have to speak, she defends me.
  F#m                   G5
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.

[Outro]
A           D5 A                         A5    D5
 Oh no, ooh.   Yodel, yodel, yo hee hee. Yodel hee.
                          A
Yodel, yodel, yo hee hee. Oh no, ooh.
D5 A
   Yodel, yodel, yo hee hee.
D5 A D5 A