Cripple Creek Song Lyrics

Cripple Creek Song Lyrics

Song Details

Artist: The Band

Song: Cripple Creek

Album: N/A

Release Date: 1969

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

When I get off of this mountain

You know where I want to go?

Straight down the Mississippi River

To the Gulf of Mexico

To Lake Charles, Louisiana

Little Bessie, girl that I once knew

She told me just to come on by

If there's anything she could do

[Chorus]

Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me

If I spring a leak, she mends me

I don't have to speak, she defends me

A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

[Verse 2]

Good luck had just stung me

To the race track I did go

She bet on one horse to win

And I bet on another to show

The odds were in my favor

I had 'em five to one

When that nag to win came around the track

Sure enough, she had won

[Chorus]

Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me

If I spring a leak, she mends me

I don't have to speak, she defends me

A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

[Verse 3]

I took up all of my winnings

And I gave my little Bessie half

She tore it up and threw it in my face

Just for a laugh

Now there's one thing in the whole wide world

I sure would like to see

That's when that little love of mine

Dips her doughnut in my tea

He-he!

[Chorus]

Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me

If I spring a leak, she mends me

I don't have to speak, she defends me

A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

[Verse 4]

Now me and my mate were back at the shack

We had Spike Jones on the box

She said, "I can't take the way he sings

But I love to hear him talk"

Now that just gave my heart a throb

To the bottom of my feet

And I swore as I took another pull

My Bessie can't be beat

[Chorus]

Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me

If I spring a leak, she mends me

I don't have to speak, she defends me

A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

[Interlude]

No-no, hu-hu

Lodl-lodl-lodl-uh-hu

No-no-hu

Lodl-lodl-lodl-uh-hu

[Verse 5]

Now there's a flood out in California

And up north it's freezing cold

And this living on the road is getting pretty old

So I guess I'll call up my big mama

Tell her I'll be rolling in

But you know deep down, I'm kind of tempted

To go and see my Bessie again

[Chorus]

Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me

If I spring a leak, she mends me

I don't have to speak, she defends me

A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

[Outro]

No-no, hu-hu

Lodl-lodl-lodl-uh-hu

No-no-hu

Lodl-lodl-lodl-uh-hu

No-no-hu

Lodl-lodl-lodl-uh-hu

No-no-hu

Lodl-lodl-lodl-uh-hu