Chords for Up On Cripple Creek - The Band

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_ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ And now when I get off of this mountain, _
[D] yeah you hear the morning call, _ [F#m] _ _
I [C] get down [D] in Mississippi
River [E] to the Gulf of Mexico, _ _ all the [Am] way to Lake Charles, _ Louisiana, [C] the little visitor
[A] that I once [D] knew, _ [A] _
[C] and this it told me, [D] come on down if there [E] was anything she could do,
_ [A] she's lined up on Cripple Creek, _ she'll send [D] me if I sprang a leak, and she'll bring [E] me,
I don't have to speak, but she'll advance me, it's drunkard's dream, [G] if I ever did see one.
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This little old man just sung me, [C] so to the race track that he go,
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you know get off one [D] horse to win, [E]
or best bet another to show, I [A] get the odds all in my favor,
_ [C] I got him down five [D] from one, _ _ [Am] _
when him horses ran around [D] the track, [E]
he was reading Missy Hedwinder,
_ [A] he's lining up on Cripple Creek, _ she'll send [D] me if I sprang a leak, and she'll bring [E] me,
I don't have to speak, but she'll advance [F#m] me, it's drunkard's dream, [G] if I ever did see one.
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_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] Well I sure followed my _ [F] winnings, [D] and I gave him little Bessie Hines,
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but Bessie tore [D] right up and blew it in my face, [E] did just for a laugh,
_ _ [A] with the edges of my heart from to [D] the bottom of my feet, _ _ _ [C] and I swore [D] when I took another call,
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Bessie can't be beat, _ she's lining [A] up on Cripple Creek, and she'll send [D] me if I sprang a leak,
and she'll bring me, [E] I don't have to speak, but she'll advance me, [F#m] it's drunkard's dream,
if [G] I ever did see one.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] Now me and my mate, we went on back to [C] the shack, we put the spike [Am] on
the [D] box, _ _ _ [Am]
she said I'd be paid [D] the way that he sang, but [E] I love to hear him call,
_ _ _ [A] but there's one thing in the whole wide world, [D]
I sure do love to see, _ _ _
[C] how that little sweet honey [D] of mine, [E] puts the donut in the beer, she's taking [A] me up on
Cripple Creek, and she'll send [D] me if I sprang a leak, and she'll bring me, [E] I don't have to speak,
but she'll advance [F#m] me, it's drunkard's dream, [G] if I ever did see one.
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ Well ain't [A] that good, I know it is, [C] you know up north it's freezing [D] cold,
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and it's living [C] out here on them roads, [E]
it's getting kind of old,
_ so [A] I guess I'll call up my big mama, _ [D] and tell her [A] I'll be rolling [D] on in,
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but you know deep [D] down, I'm sort of tempted, [E] to go and see my bestie,
take _ _ [A] me up on Cripple Creek, and she'll [D] send me if I sprang a leak, and she'll bring [E] me,
I don't have to speak, but she'll advance [F#m] me, it's drunkard's dream, [G] if I ever did see one.
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