Up on cripple creek lyrics

Artist  : Band 
Song : 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
that I once knew
She told me just to come on by, if there's
anything she could do

Refrain:

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
When that nag to win came around the track, sure
enough she had won

(refrain)

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

(refrain)

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 and I took another pull, my Bessie
can't be beat

(refrain)

Now 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.