Goin' Up Cripple Creek

Goin' Up Cripple Creek, also known as Cripple Creek, is an old traditional tune. The song became a very famous bluegrass standard, recorded by the Stoneman Family, Flatt and Scruggs, bluegrass master Bill Monroe but also Lynn Anderson, Johnny Cash or Glen Campbell. But prior to the bluegrass development of the early 1940's, the tune was familiar to rural fiddlers in the appalachian hills. Recorded versions by such old-time musicians were these of Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, the Hill Billies, Fiddlin' John Carson or Charlie Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers, who recorded it as Shootin' Creek.

Lyrics
Hey, I got a girl at the head of the creek Goin up to see her about 2 times a week Kiss her on the mouth, sweet as any wine Wrap herself around me like a sweet potato vine

Goin up Cripple Creek, goin on a run Goin up Cripple Creek to have a little fun Goin up Cripple Creek, goin in a whirl Goin up Cripple Creek to see my little girl

Now the girls up Cripple Creek about half-grown Jump on a boy like a dog on a bone Roll my britches up to my knees Wade ol Cripple Creek whenever I please

Goin up Cripple Creek, goin on a run Goin up Cripple Creek to have a little fun Goin up Cripple Creek, goin in a whirl Goin up Cripple Creek to see my little girl

Now, Cripple Creek's wide and Cripple Creek's deep Wade old Cripple Creek before I sleep Hills are steep and the roads are muddy and I'm so dizzy that I can't stand steady I'm

Goin up Cripple Creek, goin on a run Goin up Cripple Creek to have a little fun Goin up Cripple Creek, goin in a whirl Goin up Cripple Creek to see my little girl.