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 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, as 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.
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, as 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.

Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
If I spring a leak, she mends me.
I don't have to speak, as 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, as she defends me,
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.

[Yodeling Break]

As 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.

Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me.
If I spring a leak, she mends me.
I don't have to speak, as she defends me,
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.

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