Up on Cripple Creek:The Band. #25 in 1970. Album - The Band. #1. A (x02220@1) DWhen (xx0232@1)I get off of this mountain, you know where I want to go? A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) EStraight (022100@1)down the Mississippi river, to the Gulf of Mexico. A (x02220@1) DTo (xx0232@1)Lake Charles, Louisiana, little Bessie, girl that I once knew. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) EShe (022100@1)told me just to come on by, if there's anything she can do. CHORUS: AUp (x02220@1)on Cripple Creek she sends me.. Dif (xx0232@1)I spring a leak she mends me. EI (022100@1)don't have to speak, she defends me.. F#m (244222@1) Ga (320003@1)drunkard's dream if I ever did see one. #2. A (x02220@1) DGood (xx0232@1)luck had just stung me, to the race track I did go. A (x02220@1) EShe (022100@1)bet on one horse to win and I bet on another to show. A (x02220@1) DThe (xx0232@1)odds were in my favor, I had 'em five to one.. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) Ewhen (022100@1)that, nag to win, came around the track, sure enough we had won. CHORUS: AUp (x02220@1)on Cripple Creek she sends me.. Dif (xx0232@1)I spring a leak she mends me. EI (022100@1)don't have to speak, she defends me.. F#m (244222@1) Ga (320003@1)drunkard's dream if I ever did see one. #3. A (x02220@1) DI (xx0232@1)took up all of my winnings, and I gave my little Bessie half. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) EAnd (022100@1)she tore it up and threw it in my face, just for a laugh. A (x02220@1) DNow, (xx0232@1)there's just one thing in the whole wide world, I sure would like to see.. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) Ethat's (022100@1)when that goooood love of mine, dips her doughnut in my tea. Hee, hee. CHORUS: AUp (x02220@1)on Cripple Creek she sends me.. Dif (xx0232@1)I spring a leak she mends me. EI (022100@1)don't have to speak, she defends me.. F#m (244222@1) Ga (320003@1)drunkard's dream if I ever did see one. #4. A (x02220@1) DNow, (xx0232@1)me and my mate were back at the shack, we had Spike Jones on the box. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) EShe (022100@1)said, "I can't take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk." A (x02220@1) DNow, (xx0232@1)that just gave my heart a throb, to the bottom of my feet. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) EAnd (022100@1)I swore as I took another pull, my Bessie can't be beat. CHORUS: AUp (x02220@1)on Cripple Creek she sends me.. Dif (xx0232@1)I spring a leak she mends me. EI (022100@1)don't have to speak, she defends me.. F#m (244222@1) Ga (320003@1)drunkard's dream if I ever did see one. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) DLoooow, (xx0232@1)looow, hoo..loodle, loodle, loodle hooo. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) DLoooow, (xx0232@1)looow, hoo..loodle, loodle, loodle hooo. #5. A (x02220@1) DThere's (xx0232@1)a flood out in California, and up North it's freezing cold. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) EAnd (022100@1)this, living on the road, is getting pretty old. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1)So, I guess, I'll call up my big mama, tell her I'll be rolling in. A (x02220@1) DBut (xx0232@1)you know, deep down, I'm kind of tempted, Eto (022100@1)go and see my Bessie, again. CHORUS: AUp (x02220@1)on Cripple Creek she sends me.. Dif (xx0232@1)I spring a leak she mends me. EI (022100@1)don't have to speak, she defends me.. F#m (244222@1) Ga (320003@1)drunkard's dream if I ever did see one. OUTRO: A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) DLoooow, (xx0232@1)looow, hoo..loodle, loodle, loodle hooo. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) DLoooow, (xx0232@1)looow, hoo..loodle, loodle, loodle hooo. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) DLoooow, (xx0232@1)looow, hoo..loodle, loodle, loodle hooo. A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) DLoooow, (xx0232@1)looow, hoo..loodle, loodle, loodle hooo. A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
