基本介紹
- 外文名：Up On Cripple Creek
- 所屬專輯：The Band
- 歌曲原唱：The Band
- 發行日期：1969年9月22日
- 歌曲語言：英語
- 流派：Rock
- 唱片公司：CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92)
歌曲歌詞
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
When that nag to win came around the track
Sure enough we had won
Up on Cripple Creek as she sends me
If I spring a leak as 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 as she sends me
If I spring a leak as 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 as she sends me
If I spring a leak as she mends me
I don't have to speak as she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
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 she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
