Up On Cripple Creek Chords by The Band

[Verse]
A7                                
■  When I get off of this mountain
    D                    
You know where I wanna go
A7                B7               
Straight down the Mississippi River
       E7      E     
To the Gulf of Mexico
   A                     
To Lake Charles Louisiana
D                                  
Little Bessie girl that I once knew
A                       D         
And she told me just to come on by
           E                  E7
If there's anything she could do


[Chorus]
A7                              
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
D    A7            D           
If I spring a leak she mends me
E                                   
I don't have to speak she defends me
  F#m                 G                 
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one


[Verse]
A                          
Good luck had just stung me
       D                  
To the race track I did go
A          D               
She bet on one horse to win
      E7                    
And I bet on another to show
A7                   
Odds were in my favor
  D                  
I had 'em five to one
A7              D                        
And that nag to win came around the track
E                     
Sure enough we had won


[Chorus]
A7                              
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
D                              
If I spring a leak she mends me
E                                   
I don't have to speak she defends me
  F#m                 G              G7 
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one


[Verse]
  A7                        
I took up all of my winnings
      D                         
And I gave my little Bessie half
A7      E7             D                  
And she tore it up and threw it in my face
E7         Em7  
Just for a laugh
A                                            
Now there's one thing in the whole wide world
D                       
I sure would like to see
A                       D           
That's when that little love of mine
         E7             B7 
Dips her doughnut in my tea


[Chorus]
A                               
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
D                              
If I spring a leak she mends me
E                                   
I don't have to speak she defends me
  F#m                   G               
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
    A         A7                         
Now me and my mate were back at the shack


[Verse]
       D                     
We had Spike Jones on the box
D7         A7             D7          
She said I can't take the way he sings
      E                    
But I love to hear him talk
A                                  
Now that just gave my heart a throb
       D                
To the bottom of my feet
A                 D                
And I swore and I took another pull
   E7              E   
My Bessie can't be beat


[Chorus]
A7                              
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
D                              
If I spring a leak she mends me
E               E7                  
I don't have to speak she defends me
  F#m                 G              A D  
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see ■ one
A A7 D A
■ ■  ■ ■
D         A                      
There's a flood out in California


[Verse]
       D                       
And up north it's freezing cold
A               D           
And this living off the road
E                    
Is getting pretty old
     A                             
So I guess I'll call up my big mama
         D                 
Tell her I'll be rolling in
        A                  D            
But you know deep down I'm kinda tempted
   E             E7     E    
To go and see my Bessie again


[Chorus]
A7                              
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
D                              
If I spring a leak she mends me
E                                   
I don't have to speak she defends me
  F#m                 G7             A7 A D A7 
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see ■  ■ ■ one


[Outro]
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[End]