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When I get off of this mountain, you know where I want to go?
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Straight down the mississippi river, to the gulf of mexico
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To lake charles, louisiana, little bessie, girl that I once knew
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She told me just to come on by, if theres anything she could do

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Up on cripple creek she sends me
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If I spring a leak she mends me
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I dont have to speak, she defends me
F#m g
A drunkards 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
The odds were in my favor, I had em five to one
When that nag to win came around the track, sure enough she 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 threw it in my face, just for a laugh
Now theres one thing in the whole wide world, I sure would like to see
Thats 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 cant take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk
Now that just gave my heart a throb, to the bottom of my feet
And I swore and I took another pull, my bessie cant be beat

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Now theres a flood out in california and up north its freezing cold
And this living on the road is getting pretty old
So I guess Ill call up my big mama, tell her Ill be rolling in
But you know, deep down, Im kind of tempted
To go and see my bessie again.

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