CRIPPLE CREEK
Sung by: Johnny Mitchum
Recorded at the Leslie Homecoming, 6/13/63

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(Mr. Mitchum: “. . . that I played a while ago, they come up close to me. They says, ‘Say, where do you get that tone?’ Well, by grabs, I’ve got a little wire right in there and that just sets it off. How about that, news reporters? Now, then, I’ll tell you what. Get right up here close to me and we’ll get that ‘Going up Cripple Creek’ going in a run.”)

Girls in Cripple Creek
. . . to the boys like a dog at a bone.

I thought I heard my . . . say,
‘I’m going up to Cripple Creek, going to stay.’

Girls in Cripple Creek wait in the shade,
Wait for the money that the poor boy made.

(Spoken: "Just like a woman, isn’t it? Yeah.")

Girls in Cripple Creek . . .
. . . to the boys like a dog at a bone.

Also found in Brown, Vol. III, #299.

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