Cripple Creek (chromatic)

Trad. Appalachian folk song
Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt & The Foggy Mountain Boys
Key: D

+-6* means play -6-6* with -6 as a grace note

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I got a gal at the head of the creek
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Go up to see her ’bout
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the mid-dle of the week
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Kiss her on the mouth
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just as sweet as an-y wine
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Wraps her-self a-round me
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like a sweet per-ta-ter vine
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Go- in up Crip-ple Creek,
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Go- in in a run
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Go- in up Crip-ple Creek
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to have a lit-tle fun
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Go- in up Crip-ple Creek,
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Go- in in a whirl
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Go- in up Crip-ple Creek to see my girl

Girls on Cripple Creek about half grown
Jump on a boy like a dog on a- bone
Roll my britches up to my knees
Wade old Cripple Creek when I please
Goin up to Cripple Creek, goin on a run
Goin up to Cripple Creek to have a little fun
Goin up to Cripple Creek, goin in a whirl
Goin up to Cripple Creek to see my girl

Cripple Creek’s wide and Cripple Creek’s deep
Wade old Cripple Creek before I sleep
Roads are rocky and the hill side’s muddy
and I’m so drunk that I can’t stand steady
Goin up to Cripple Creek, goin on a run
Goin up to Cripple Creek to have a little fun
Goin up to Cripple Creek, goin in a whirl
Goin up to Cripple Creek to see my girl