Up on Cripple Creek - Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974

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 When I get off of this mountain you know where I wanna go
 Straight down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico
 To Lake Charles, Louisiana, oh little Bessie, girl that I once knew
 She told me just to come on by if there's anything she could do
 Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
 If I spring a leak, she mends me
 I don't have to speak when she defends me
 A drunkard's dream, if I ever did see one
 Good luck had just stung me so to the race track I did go
 I bet on one horse to win and then she bet on another to show
 The odds were in my favor, you know I had him five to one
 When that nag to win came around the track, me and little Bessie had won
 Moving up on Cripple Creek where she sends me
 If I spring a leak, she mends me
 I don't have to speak when she defends me
 A drunkard's dream, if I ever did see one
 So I pick up all of my winnings and I gave my little Bessie half
 She tore it up and threw it in my face just for a laugh
 Now that just made my heart drop to the bottom of my feet
 And I swore, as I took another pull, my Bessie can't be beat
 Up on Cripple Creek where she sends me
 If I spring a leak, she mends me
 I don't have to speak when she defends me
 A drunkard's dream, if I ever did see one
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 Well, 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 there's one thing in the whole wide world I'd surely love to see
 That's that little sweet thing of mine puts her sugar in my tea
 I'm going up on Cripple Creek where she sends me
 And if I spring a leak, she mends me
 I don't have to speak when she defends me
 A drunkard's dream, if I ever did see one
 Well, it's hot out in California and up north it's freezing cold
 And this living off the new road is getting pretty old
 So I guess I'll call up my big mama, and tell her I'll be rolling in
 Bet you know, deep down, I'm sorta tempted to go and see my Bessie again
 I'm going up on Cripple Creek where she sends me
 If I spring a leak, she mends me
 I don't have to speak when she defends me
 A drunkard's dream, if I ever did see one