Key: A
Introduction:
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When I get off of 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, Louisianna, little Bessie, a girl who I once knew.
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She told me just to come on by if there' s anything that she could do.
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Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
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If I spring a leak, she mends me.
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I don' t have to speak, she defends me.
F#m G
A drunkard' s dream if I ever did see one.
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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 them five to one.
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That nag to win came around the track, sure enough she had won.
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Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
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If I spring a leak, she mends me.
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I don' t have to speak, she defends me.
F#m G
A drunkard' s dream if I ever did see one.
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I took up all of my winnings and I gave little Bessie half.
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She tore it up and threw it in my face just for a laugh.
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And there' s one thing in the whole wide world I sure would like to see.
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that' s when that little love of mine dips her doughnut in my tea.
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Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
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If I spring a leak, she mends me.
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I don' t have to speak, she defends me.
F#m G
A drunkard' s dream if I ever did see one.
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Me and my mate we were back at the shack, we had Spike Jones on the box.
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She says, "I can' t take the way he sings, 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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Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
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If I spring a leak, she mends me.
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I don' t have to speak, she defends me.
F#m G
A drunkard' s dream if I ever did see one.
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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 on 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 kind of tempted
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To go and see my Bessie again.
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Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
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If I spring a leak, she mends me.
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I don' t have to speak, she defends me.
F#m G
A drunkard' s dream if I ever did see one.
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and fade