Up On Cripple Creek chords by Don Rich, The Buckaroos

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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When I get off of this mountain,
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you know where I'm gonna go
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Straight down the Mississippi River
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to the Gulf of Mexico
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Down to Lake Charles, Louisiana,
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little fancy girl I once knew
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She told me just to come on by
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if there's anything she could do
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Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
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If I sprang a leak, she missed me
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I don't have to speak,
she defends me
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Tucker's  dream,
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if I ever did see one
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Well, me and my mate were
back at the shack
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We had Spike Jones on the bar
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She said, can't take the way he sings
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But I love to hear him talk
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Well, that just changed my heart
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to drop to the bottom of my feet
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And I swore as I  took another form,
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I bet she can't be beat
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Up on Cribble Creek,
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she sends me if I spring a leak
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She lends me, I  don't have to speak,
she defends me
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Trucker's  dream if I ever did
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see one Ž
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Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
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oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Ž Ž
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Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
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oh oh oh Ž Ž I was out in California
Ž
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And I know it was breezy and cold
Ž
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And this lady been off the road
Ž
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She's gettin' pretty old Ž
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So I  guess I'll call up my big mama Ž
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Tell her I'll be roamin' in Ž
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But you know deep down
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I'm kind of tempted to go and
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see my Bessie again
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Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
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If I swing a leak, she mends me
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I don't have to speak,
she defends me
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Drunk as a reed,
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if I ever did see one
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, the little lonely lady
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, the little lonely lady