?[00:07.06]When I get off of this mountain
[00:10.41]You know where I want to go
[00:14.21]Straight down the Mississippi river to the Gulf of Mexico
[00:20.50]To Lake Charles Louisiana
[00:23.35]Little Bessie girl that I once knew
[00:27.62]She told me just to come on by
[00:30.23]If there's anything that she could do
[00:33.95]Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
[00:37.30]If I spring a leak she mends me
[00:40.59]I don't have to speak as she defends me
[00:43.84]A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
[00:50.79]Good luck had just stung me
[00:53.47]To the race track I did go
[00:57.74]She bet on one horse to win
[01:00.38]And I bet on another to show
[01:03.95]The odds were in my favor
[01:07.02]I had them five to one
[01:11.03]When that nag to win came around the track
[01:14.00]Sure enough we had won
[01:17.50]Up on Cripple Creek as she sends me
[01:20.77]If I spring a leak as she mends me
[01:24.04]I don't have to speak as she defends me
[01:27.24]A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
[01:33.97]I took up all of my winnings
[01:36.80]And I gave my little Bessie half
[01:40.94]And she tore it up and threw it in my face
[01:43.90]Just for a laugh
[01:47.17]Now there's one thing in the whole wide world
[01:50.66]I sure would like to see
[01:54.14]That's when that little love of mine
[01:56.87]Dips her doughnut in my tea hey hey
[02:00.58]Up on Cripple Creek as she sends me
[02:03.82]If I spring a leak as she mends me
[02:07.10]I don't have to speak as she defends me
[02:10.34]A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
[02:17.17]Now me and my mate were back at the shack
[02:20.04]We had Spike Jones on the box
[02:24.09]She said I can't take the way he sings
[02:26.90]But I love to hear him talk
[02:30.37]Now that just gave my heart a throb
[02:33.54]To the bottom of my feet
[02:37.50]And I swore as I took another pull
[02:40.34]My Bessie can't be beat
[02:43.93]Up on Cripple Creek as she sends me
[02:47.15]If I spring a leak as she mends me
[02:50.34]I don't have to speak as she defends me
[02:53.65]A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
[03:00.96]No no ho love love ho no no ho love love love ho
[03:13.43]As there's a flood out in California
[03:16.61]And up north it's freezing cold
[03:20.70]And this living on the road
[03:23.62]Is getting pretty old
[03:26.57]So I guess I'll call up my big mama
[03:29.82]Tell her I'll be rolling in
[03:33.26]But you know deep down
[03:35.09]I'm kind of tempted
[03:36.84]To go and see my Bessie again
[03:40.41]Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
[03:43.57]If I spring a leak she mends me
[03:46.96]I don't have to speak she defends me
[03:50.21]A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
[03:57.49]No no ho love love ho no no ho love love love ho
[04:10.39]No no ho love love ho
[04:17.42]Love love love love
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