Up On Cripple Creek (Live At Budweiser Gardens, London, ONT / February 28, 2017)

Yeah when I get off of this mountain

Tell her how to go

Straight to the Mississippi River

To the Gulf of Mexico

Yeah to Lake Charles, Louisiana

Little Bessie, a girl that I once knew

She told me just to come on by

If there's anything she could do

Up on Cripple Creek she send me

If I spring a leak she mends me

I don't have to speak 'cause she defends me

A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Good luck had just stung me

To the race track I did go

Yeah i bet on one horse to win

And she bet on another to show

The odds were in my favor

So I gave my little Bessie half

When that nag to win came around the track

It really chapped my ass

Up on Cripple Creek she send me

If I spring a leak she mends me

I don't have to speak 'cause she defends me

A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

I took up all of my winnings

And I gave my little Bessie half

Yeah she tore it up and threw it in my face

You know just for a laugh

Yeah but there's one thing in the whole wide world

I sure would like to see

It's when that little love of mine

Puts her doughnut in my tea

Up on Cripple Creek she send me

If I spring a leak she mends me

I don't have to speak 'cause she defends me

A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Well me and my mate were back at the shack

We had Spike Jones on the box

She said, "I can't stand to hear him sing

But I sure love to hear him talk"

Now that just gave my heart a fall

To the bottom of my feet

And I swore as I took another pull

My Bessie can't be beat

Up on Cripple Creek she send me

If I spring a leak she mends me

I don't have to speak 'cause she defends me

A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Yeah a flood out in California

Up in Canada it's freezin' cold

And this livin' out on the road

Well it's gettin' pretty old

So I guess I'll call up my big mama

And tell her I'll be movin' in

Bet deep down, deep down you know I'm kinda tempted

To go see my Bessie again

Up on Cripple Creek she send me

If I spring a leak she mends me

I don't have to speak 'cause she defends me

A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Yeah up on Cripple Creek she send me

If I spring a leak she mends me

I don't have to speak 'cause she defends me

A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one