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