Words to Cripple Creek...?

[wmferg]

Anybody know where I can find the words to the song Cripple Creek? I'm learning the tune on the mandolin and would love to have the lyrics to go along with them.

Thanks in advance.

WmFerg

[Dfyngravity]

here ya go. try this cripple creek (http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/mandotab/cripplec.html)

[Jim M.]

How many verses you want?

CRIPPLE CREEK
(Kentucky, traditional)

Hey, I got a gal,
At the head of the creek,
An' I'm goin' up t' see her,
'Bout three times a week.

Kisses on the mouth,
Jus' as sweet as any wine,
Wrap myself aroun' her,
Like a sweet potato vine.

chorus:
Goin' up Cripple Creek,
Goin' on a run,
Goin' up Cripple Creek,
T' have some fun.

Goin' up Cripple Creek,
Goin' in a whirl,
Goin' up Cripple Creek,
T' see my girl.

I got a gal,
An' she loves me,
She's as sweet
As she can be.

She's got eyes,
Of baby blue,
An' her love,
Fer me is true.

chorus:

Now the girls up Cripple Creek,
'Bout half grown,
Jump on a boy,
Like a dog on a bone.

Roll my britches,
Up to my knees,
An' wade ol' Cripple Creek,
When I please.

chorus:

Cripple Creek's wide,
An' Cripple Creek's deep,
Gonna wade ol' Cripple Creek,
'Fore I sleep.

Hills are steep,
An' the road is muddy,
An' I'm so drunk,
I can't stan' steady.

chorus:
Cripple Creek's wide,
An' Cripple Creek's deep,
Gonna wade ol' Cripple Creek,
'Fore I sleep.

Roll my britches,
To my knees,
'An wade ol' Cripple Creek,
When I please.

chorus:

Drive in a buggy,
That's for me,
Watch the wheels roll,
Merrily.

Through the mud.
An' over the stones,
Buckin' horses,
Break good bones.

chorus:

I went down,
To Cripple Creek,
To see what them gals,
Had to eat.

Got so drunk,
I fell against the wall,
Ol' corn likker,
Was the cause of it all.

chorus

I went down,
To Cripple Creek,
To see what them gals,
Had to eat.
What they cooked,
I couldn't eat at all,
Harder than,
A brick in the wall.

These are from www.mudcat.org , but there are lots more. Or make up your own and add to the folk tradition

[wmferg]

Thanks Dfyngravity & Jim.

Appreciate it.

[BlueMountain]

Hey, lots of great verses there, including some I've never heard. Here's the version I use. It has some variations from similar verses of yours. I love how folk music mutates.

Cripple Creek C

I got a girl and she loves me.?
She's as sweet as sweet can be.?
She's got eyes of baby blue.?
Makes my gun shoot straight and true.

CHORUS:
Goin' up Cripple Creek goin' on the run;
Goin' up Cripple Creek to have some fun.
Goin’ up Cripple Creek, goin’ in a whirl;
Goin’ up Cripple Creek to see my girl.

Cripple Creek's wide and Cripple Creek's deep?
I'll wade old Cripple Creek before I sleep
Roll my breeches to my knees?
I'll wade ol' Cripple Creek when I please

I went down to Cripple Creek?
To see what them girls had to eat?
I got drunk and fell against the wall?
Old corn likker was the cause of it all

[BlueMountain]

Hmm. Sorry about all those question marks at the end of the lines. I pasted it in from a Word document, and this discussion site saw the paragraph marks as question marks, I guess. It sort of reminds me of having "Cripple Creek" sung by a Southern California Valley Girl, with a rising inflection at the end of each sentence. A horrid thought.

[Professor PT]

Like, up-talk is what they call it? Like every sentence ends in a question?