Chords for: Up On Cripple Creek - Carson McKee feat. Skylar McKee
as seen in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLtOKOD0mUY


[Verse]

             
When I get off

              
 of this mount

         
ain, you know 

where I want t

o go?
             
Straight down 

              
the Mississipp

              
i River to the

 
 Gulf of Mexic

o.
             
To Lake Charle

              
s, Louisianna,

         
 little Bessie

, a girl who I

 once knew.
             
She told me ju

              
st to come on 

              
by if there's 

 
anything that 

she could do.


[Refrain]

           
We're goin up 

on Cripple Cre

ek, she sends 

me.

If I spring a 

leak, she mend

s me.

I don't have t

o speak, she d

efends me.
Cm#                     D
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.


[Verse]
             
Good luck had 

              
just stung me,

         
 to the race t

rack I did go.
             
She bet on one

              
 horse to win 

      
and I bet on a

nother to show

.
             
The odds were 

              
in my favor, I

  
 had them five

 to one.
             
When that nag,

              
 through wind 

              
came around th

         
e track, me an

d Bessie had w

on.


[Refrain]

           
We're goin up 

on Cripple Cre

ek, she sends 

me.

If I spring a 

leak, she mend

s me.

I don't have t

o speak, she d

efends me.
Cm#                     D
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.



[Verse]
             
I took up all 

              
of my winnings

        
 and I gave li

ttle Bessie ha

lf.
             
She tore it up

              
 and threw it 

           
in my face jus

t for a laugh.
             
There's one th

              
ing in the who

              
le wide world 

  
I sure would l

ike to see.
             
That's when th

              
at little love

              
 of mine dips 

    
her doughnut i

n my tea.


[Refrain]

           
We're goin up 

on Cripple Cre

ek, she sends 

me.

If I spring a 

leak, she mend

s me.

I don't have t

o speak, she d

efends me.
Cm#                     D
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.


[Verse]
             
Me and my mate

              
 we were back 

              
at the shack, 

       
we got Spike J

ones on the bo

x.
             
She says, "I c

              
an'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 anothe

           
r pull, my Bes

sie can't be b

eat.


[Refrain]

           
We're goin up 

on Cripple Cre

ek, she sends 

me.

If I spring a 

leak, she mend

s me.

I don't have t

o speak, she d

efends me.
Cm#                     D
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.



[Yodel over]

          


[Verse]
             
Now There's a 

              
flood out in C

              
alifornia and 

    
up north it's 

freezing cold.
             
And this livin

              
g off of the r

           
oad now is get

ting pretty ol

d.
             
So I guess I'l

              
l call up my b

              
ig mama, tell 

    
her I'll be ro

lling in.

But you know, 

deep down, I'm

 kind of tempt

ed
      
To go and see 

my Bessie agai

n.


[Refrain]

           
We're goin up 

on Cripple Cre

ek, she sends 

me.

If I spring a 

leak, she mend

s me.

I don't have t

o speak, she d

efends me.
Cm#                     D
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.


[Yodel over]

          

and fade