{"id":7098,"date":"2008-04-01T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T04:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2008-04-10T08:53:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T12:53:30","slug":"cripple-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7098","title":{"rendered":"Cripple Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Cripple_Creek.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Cripple_Creek.mp3\">Cripple Creek<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">So many towns boast a Cripple Creek, it&#8217;s hard to know which one this song is referring to. The famous banjo picker Bascom Lamar Lunsford mentioned in his 1927 book &#8220;30 and 1 Folksongs From the Southern Mountains&#8221; that he knew of a Cripple Creek within five minutes walking distance of his office in the Flat Iron Building in downtown Asheville, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Of course everyone claims their own town to be the real Cripple Creek &#8211; including the former Gold Rush town,<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cripple_Creek,_Colorado\"> Cripple Creek, Colorado<\/a>,  but the music sounds more like it came from Kentucky or North Carolina. I just sang the choruses. Instead of singing the verses, I played them as the great old Southern instrumental this is. I&#8217;ve included the verses below if you want to sing them.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a nice Youtube video of Earl Scruggs and his friends doing the song as an instrumental. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZMicxlB_7fg\">Click here.<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nCripple Creek<br \/>\n  (Kentucky, traditional)<\/p>\n<p>[G] Hey, I got a gal,<br \/>\nAt the head of the creek,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; I&#8217;m goin&#8217; up t&#8217; see her,<br \/>\n&#8216;Bout three [D] times a [G] week.<\/p>\n<p>Kisses on the mouth,<br \/>\nJus&#8217; as sweet as any wine,<br \/>\nWrap myself aroun&#8217; her,<br \/>\nLike a sweet potato vine.<\/p>\n<p>chorus:<br \/>\n      Goin&#8217; up Cripple Creek,<br \/>\n      Goin&#8217; on a run,<br \/>\n      Goin&#8217; up Cripple Creek,<br \/>\n      T&#8217; have some fun.<\/p>\n<p>      Goin&#8217; up Cripple Creek,<br \/>\n      Goin&#8217; in a whirl,<br \/>\n      Goin&#8217; up Cripple Creek,<br \/>\n      T&#8217; see my girl.<\/p>\n<p>I got a gal,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; she loves me,<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s as sweet<br \/>\nAs she can be.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s got eyes,<br \/>\nOf baby blue,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; her love,<br \/>\nFer me is true.<\/p>\n<p>      chorus:<\/p>\n<p>Now the girls up Cripple Creek,<br \/>\n&#8216;Bout half grown,<br \/>\nJump on a boy,<br \/>\nLike a dog on a bone.<\/p>\n<p>Roll my britches,<br \/>\nUp to my knees,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; wade ol&#8217; Cripple Creek,<br \/>\nWhen I please.<\/p>\n<p>      chorus:<\/p>\n<p>Cripple Creek&#8217;s wide,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; Cripple Creek&#8217;s deep,<br \/>\nGonna wade ol&#8217; Cripple Creek,<br \/>\n&#8216;Fore I sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Hills are steep,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; the road is muddy,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; I&#8217;m so drunk,<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t stan&#8217; steady.<\/p>\n<p>      chorus:<br \/>\nCripple Creek&#8217;s wide,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; Cripple Creek&#8217;s deep,<br \/>\nGonna wade ol&#8217; Cripple Creek,<br \/>\n&#8216;Fore I sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Roll my britches,<br \/>\nTo my knees,<br \/>\n&#8216;An wade ol&#8217; Cripple Creek,<br \/>\nWhen I please.<\/p>\n<p>      chorus:<\/p>\n<p>Drive in a buggy,<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s for me,<br \/>\nWatch the wheels roll,<br \/>\nMerrily.<\/p>\n<p>Through the mud.<br \/>\nAn&#8217; over the stones,<br \/>\nBuckin&#8217; horses,<br \/>\nBreak good bones.<\/p>\n<p>      chorus:<\/p>\n<p>I went down,<br \/>\nTo Cripple Creek,<br \/>\nTo see what them gals,<br \/>\nHad to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Got so drunk,<br \/>\nI fell against the wall,<br \/>\nOl&#8217; corn likker,<br \/>\nWas the cause of it all.<\/p>\n<p>      chorus<\/p>\n<p>I went down,<br \/>\nTo Cripple Creek,<br \/>\nTo see what them gals,<br \/>\nHad to eat.<br \/>\nWhat they cooked,<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t eat at all,<br \/>\nHarder than,<br \/>\nA brick in the wall.<\/p>\n<p>      chorus:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Cripple Creek So many towns boast a Cripple Creek, it&#8217;s hard to know which one this song is referring to. The famous banjo picker Bascom Lamar Lunsford mentioned in his 1927 book &#8220;30 and 1 Folksongs From the Southern Mountains&#8221; that he knew of a Cripple Creek within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7098\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cripple Creek&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8710,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions\/8710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}