Artist Name
The Band
Album
The Band
Release
1969
GWhen I get off of this mountain
You Cknow where I wanna Ggo?
GStraight down the Mississippi River
To the DGulf of Mexico
To GLake Charles, Louisiana
Little CBessie, girl that I once Gknew
GAnd she told me just to come on by
If there's Danything she could do
Chorus
GUp on Cripple Creek, she sends me
CIf I spring a leak, she mends me
DI don't have to speak, she defends me
A Emdrunkard's dream if I Fever did see one F .... G C
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
Odds were in my favor
I had 'em five to one
And that nag to win came around the track
Sure enough we had won
GOh oh Cwhoooo GLawdy Lawdy Lawdy Cwhooo
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
GOh oh Cwhoooo GLawdy Lawdy Lawdy Cwhooo
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 and I took another pull
My Bessie can't be beat
GOh oh Cwhoooo GLawdy Lawdy Lawdy Cwhooo
There's a flood out in California
And up north it's freezing cold
And this living off 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 kinda tempted
To go and see my Bessie again
GOh oh Cwhoooo GLawdy Lawdy Lawdy Cwhooo