When I Get Off Of This Mountain
You Know Where I Want To Go
Straight Down The Mississippi River
To The Gulf Of Mexico

To Lake Charles, Louisiana
Little Bessie, A Girl That I Once Knew
And She Told Me Just To Come On By
If There's Anything She Could Do

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Up On Cripple Creek She Sends Me
If I Spring A Leak She Mends Me
I Don't Have To Speak She Defends Me
A Drunkard's Dream If I Ever Did See One

Good Luck Had Just Stung Me
To The Race Track I Did Go
She Bet On One Horse To Win
And I Bet On Another To Show

Odds Were In My Favor
I Had Him Five To One
When That Nag To Win Came Around The Track
Sure Enough He Had Won

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I Took Up All Of My Winnings
And I Gave My Little Bessie Half
And She Tore It Up And Blew It In My Face
Just For A Laugh

Now There's One Thing In The Whole Wide World
I Sure Would Like To See
That's When That Little Love Of Mine
Dips Her Doughnut In My Tea

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Now Me And My Mate Were Back At The Shack
We Had Spike Jones On The Box
She Said, "I Can't Take The Way He Sings
But I Love To Hear Him Talk"

Now That Just Gave My Heart A Fall
To The Bottom Of My Feet
And I Swore As I Took Another Pull
My Bessie Can't Be Beat

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Now, It's Hot In California
And Up North It's Freezing Cold
And This Living Off The Road
Is Getting Pretty Old

So I Guess I'll Call Up My Big Mama
Tell Her I'll Be Rolling In
Bet You Know, Deep Down, I'm Kinda Tempted
To Go And See My Bessie Again

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