Up on Cripple Creek
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 I once knew
She told me just to come on by
If there's anything that she could do
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
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
And that nag to win came around the track
Sure enough, we had won
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
I took up all of my winnings
And I gave my little Bessie half
And 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, hee, hee
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
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
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
No, no, ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
No, loddle-loddle-ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
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 rollin' in
But you know, deep down
I'm kinda tempted
To go and see my Bessie again
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
No, no, ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
No, loddle-loddle-ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
No, no, ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
You know where I want to go
Straight down the Mississippi River
To the Gulf of Mexico
To Lake Charles, Louisiana
Little Bessie, girl I once knew
She told me just to come on by
If there's anything that she could do
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
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
And that nag to win came around the track
Sure enough, we had won
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
I took up all of my winnings
And I gave my little Bessie half
And 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, hee, hee
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
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
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
No, no, ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
No, loddle-loddle-ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
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 rollin' in
But you know, deep down
I'm kinda tempted
To go and see my Bessie again
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
No, no, ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
No, loddle-loddle-ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
No, no, ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
Loddle-loddle-ooh
Credits
Writer(s): Robbie Robertson
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Other Album Tracks
- Don't Do It
- Shape I'm in
- It Makes No Difference
- The Weight
- King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
- Twilight
- Ophelia
- Tears of Rage
- Forbidden Fruit
- This Wheel's on Fire
All Album Tracks: Carter Baron Amphitheater, Washington DC, July 17th 1976 >
Altri album
- North Wind Blows (Live 1984)
- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down / When I Paint My Masterpiece / Thinkin’ Out Loud / Life Is A Carnival
- When I Paint My Masterpiece / Thinkin’ Out Loud / Life Is A Carnival
- Thinkin’ Out Loud / Life Is A Carnival
- Up On Cripple Creek (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, November 2, 1969)
- Stage Fright (2020 Remix)
- Stage Fright (Deluxe Edition / 2020 Remix)
- The Weight/Time To Kill/Sleeping/The Shape I'm In
- Toronto FM 1993 (live)
- The Band (Deluxe Edition / 2019 Remix)
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