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Nils |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 1380 Location: Central Oregon | Any of you folks have the words to Cripple Creek? I've tried Cowpie but couldn't come up with anything. TIA | ||
xnoel |
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Joined: September 2003 Posts: 782 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. Pegleg Dog Hopkins | ||
Nils |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 1380 Location: Central Oregon | Thanks a million Pegleg! | ||
stonebobbo |
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Joined: August 2002 Posts: 8307 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 | ||
Bailey |
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Joined: May 2002 Posts: 3005 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. | ||
Paul Wag |
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Joined: December 2002 Posts: 939 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. :) | ||
cliff |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 14842 Location: NJ | . . . probabaly all inspired by the same geographical waterway . . as was Neil Young's "Cripple Creek Ferry" . . | ||
Nils |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 1380 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 | ||
Bailey |
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Joined: May 2002 Posts: 3005 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. | ||
Paul Wag |
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Joined: December 2002 Posts: 939 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... :D | ||
riker |
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Joined: January 2005 Posts: 29 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. Erik | ||
seesquare |
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Joined: November 2002 Posts: 3610 Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Should be on www.tabrobot.com, somewhere. | ||
Tim in Yucaipa |
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Joined: August 2003 Posts: 2246 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 ;) | ||
Gary K |
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Joined: December 2003 Posts: 77 Location: Texas | Didn't Buck and Roy play a portion of this during a segment of "Hee Haw"? -Gary K | ||
Nils |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 1380 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. | ||
Bailey |
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Joined: May 2002 Posts: 3005 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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