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Location: Central Oregon | Any of you folks have the words to Cripple Creek? I've tried Cowpie but couldn't come up with anything.
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Location: Waurika OK | nils
Go here:
http://www.chordie.com/allsongs.php/songtitle/Cripple+creek/songartist/Buffy+Sainte-Marie/index.html
Gobs of songs on this site.
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Location: Central Oregon | Thanks a million Pegleg! |
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Location: Tennessee | Not sure which version you were looking for ... Here's a place to get the lyrics as done by The Band:
Cripple Creek |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | xnoels Buffy Saint Marie version is pretty close.
It was a gold miners song from Colorado in the 1860's or 1870's and is mostly considered an instrumental. The only words I have consistently heard over 60 years are:
Goin' up Cripple Creek
Goin' on the run
Goin' up Cripple Creek
To have a little fun
Beyond that, it is up for grabs as to who can invent some lyrics, but they wont be historically correct.
Bailey
PS
I just checked my "1000 Favorite Songs" that has every folk or country song ever written and it doesn't have any words to Cripple Creek. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | The Band song is not the traditional "Cripple Creek" song but thier own (Robbie Robertson gets songwriting credit) song titled "Up On Cripple Creek"....
Most likey inspired by the traditional tune.
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Location: NJ | . . . probabaly all inspired by the same geographical waterway . . as was Neil Young's "Cripple Creek Ferry" . . |
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Location: Central Oregon | These are the ones I was looking for xnoel found 'em for me-
Cripple Creek
Hey, I got a girl at the head of the creek
Goin up to see her about 2 times a week
Kiss her on the mouth, sweet as any wine
Wrap herself around me like a sweet potato vine
Goin up Cripple Creek, goin on a run
Goin up Cripple Creek to have a little fun
Goin up Cripple Creek, goin in a whirl
Goin up Cripple Creek to see my little girl
Now the girls up Cripple Creek about half-grown
Jump on a boy like a dog on a bone
Roll my britches up to my knees
Wade ol Cripple Creek whenever I please
Goin up Cripple Creek, goin on a run
Goin up Cripple Creek to have a little fun
Goin up Cripple Creek, goin in a whirl
Goin up Cripple Creek to see my little girl
Now, Cripple Creek's wide and Cripple Creek's deep
Wade old Cripple Creek before I sleep
Hills are steep and the roads are muddy
and I'm so dizzy that I can't stand steady I'm
Goin up Cripple Creek, goin on a run
Goin up Cripple Creek to have a little fun
Goin up Cripple Creek, goin in a whirl |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Nils
Those sound very close to some traditional lyrics I have seen. Cripple Creek is sort of like Arkansas Traveller and various lyrics have cropped up over the years, the melody stays the same so a jam session will work if somebody shouts out "let's do Cripple Creek", everybody will have the same basic break, and somebody in the crowd might throw in some lyrics. The best guy for this was that school teacher who made 12th of January a BIG hit and also some other traditional songs. For the life of me, I can't recall his name right now.
Bailey (Muddy Lemon has went to sleep so I get to talk)
PS: I liked those lyrics so I saved them, maybe I'LL throw in some lyrics next jam session. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | We got the lyrics, what's the chord progression (I know it's a simple one :rolleyes: )?
Sounds like a shoe-in for the pre-tour, post-tour (official), next-day-tour jams...
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Location: Hyattsville, MD | I know with The Band's Cripple Creek the progression is A (when I get offa this mountain) to D (I know where I'm gonna go) to A (straight down the mississippi river) to E (to the Gulf of Mexico), and in the chorus there is I think an F#( a drunkard's dream if I) to G (ever did see one).
Or not.
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Should be on www.tabrobot.com, somewhere. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | I found these lyrics on:
Bluegrass Lyrics
"Cripple Creek"
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.
Goin' up Cripple Creek goin' in a run
Goin' up Cripple Creek to have some fun.
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....
...hmmmm..seems like another one of those makeitupasyougoalong songs ;) |
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Location: Texas | Didn't Buck and Roy play a portion of this during a segment of "Hee Haw"?
-Gary K |
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Location: Central Oregon | Yep. Pickin' & grinnin'. I saw Roy Clark doing a promo for DVD's of Hee Haw the other night & a segment of pickin' & grinnin' was included in the blurb. That's what reminded me of it & I took a few minutes to figure out how to play it. I figured there must be more lyrics.
Btw, never did figure out why Buck was pickin' & Roy was grinnin', always looked the other way around to me. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I think "Cripple Creek" was a background song on a PBS feature on gold mining history, words were close to Nils.
I never liked the song until I heard it as a banjo tune then it made sense, after that I played it a lot in bluegrass bands, but really it is an old song like "Clementine". That's why some bands have spruced it up a little for effect.
Bailey (This idiot Bailey don't even know a blues version, does he think all dem miners was white, Muddy Lemon Davis) |
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