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

Up on Cripple Creek (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) - Bob Dylan/The Band

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 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

I bet on one horse to win

And I still bet on another to show

The odds were in my favor

In your I had 'em five to one

When that nag to win came around the track

Be in little dance we had won

Going 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

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 met 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

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 one thing in the whole wild world

I sure you would love to see

As that little treat on my mind

Put your dollar in my tea

I'm going up on Cripple Creek

As 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

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 sort of tempted

To go and see my Bessie again

I'm going up on Cripple Creek

As 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