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

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.
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A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.