Up On Cripple Creek (Acoustic)

Capo: 2nd fret Verse E A When I get off of this mountain, you know where I want to go? E B Straight down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. E A To Lake Charles, Louisianna, little Bessie, a girl who I once knew. E B She told me just to come on by if there's anything that she could do. [Refrain] E We're goin up on Cripple Creek, she sends me. A If I spring a leak, she mends me. B I don't have to speak, she defends me. Cm# D A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one. Verse E A Good luck had just stung me, to the race track I did go. E B She bet on one horse to win and I bet on another to show. E A The odds were in my favor, I had them five to one. E B When that nag, through wind came around the track, me and Bessie had won. [Refrain] E We're goin up on Cripple Creek, she sends me. A If I spring a leak, she mends me. B I don't have to speak, she defends me. Cm# D A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one. Verse E A I took up all of my winnings and I gave little Bessie half. E B She tore it up and threw it in my face just for a laugh. E A There's one thing in the whole wide world I sure would like to see. E B That's when that little love of mine dips her doughnut in my tea. [Refrain] E We're goin up on Cripple Creek, she sends me. A If I spring a leak, she mends me. B I don't have to speak, she defends me. Cm# D A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one. Verse E A Me and my mate we were back at the shack, we got Spike Jones on the box. E B She says, "I can't take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk." E A Now that just gave my heart a throb to the bottom of my feet. E A And I swore as I took another pull, my Bessie can't be beat. [Refrain] E We're goin up on Cripple Creek, she sends me. A If I spring a leak, she mends me. B I don't have to speak, she defends me. Cm# D A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one. [Yodel over] E A E A Verse E A Now There's a flood out in California and up north it's freezing cold. E B And this living off of the road now is getting pretty old. E A So I guess I'll call up my big mama, tell her I'll be rolling in. E But you know, deep down, I'm kind of tempted B To go and see my Bessie again. [Refrain] E We're goin up on Cripple Creek, she sends me. A If I spring a leak, she mends me. B I don't have to speak, she defends me. Cm# D A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one. [Yodel over] E A E A and fade