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Up On Cripple Creek - The Band

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When I get offa this mountain you know where I want to go
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     Straight down the Mississippi river to the Gulf of Mexico
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To Lake Charles Louisiana little Bessie girl that I once knew
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      a-She told me just to come on by if there was anything that she could do

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   Up on Cripple Creek she sends me . . if I spring a leak she mends me
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Now I don't have to speak .... a-she defends me
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A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one } ggg-ggg-gg g-f-d f-d c-d-c b﯀

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     Good luck had just stung me, 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
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The odds were in my favor, I had 'em five to one
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     When that nag to win came 'round the track . . sure enough we had won

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      Took up all my winnings .... and I gave my little Bessie half
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    And she tore it up and threw it in my face a-just for a laugh

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Now there's one thing in the whole wide world .. I sure would like to see
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    That's when that little ol' love of mine . dips her doughnut in my tea (hee hee)

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     Me and my lady were back at the shack we had Spike Jones on the box
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     She said I can't take the way he sang but I love to hear him talk
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Now that just gave my heart a throb to the bottom of my feet
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And I swore as I took another pull my Bessie can't be beat

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[REFRAIN] Lo lo lo dooo hooo (x4)

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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 offa the road is getting pretty old
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So I guess I'll call up my big mama, tell her I'll be rolling in
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But you know deep down . . . I'm kinda tempted
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To go and see my Bessie again

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[REFRAIN] Lo lo lo dooo hooo (x8)

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Written by Robbie Robertson / The Band

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Everybody deserves a drunken day at the racetrack
at least one time in their life. This song reminds
me of a day with Reza and his stretch limo at River Downs
Lying around on the benches next to the parking lot
Drunk as lords after winning a whole bunch o' $$$
Based on Reza's dubious inside-scoop prognostications
A perfect summer day followed by
An unforgettable evening with our own Bessies.