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Cripple Creek
Traditional
Verse:
G                            C            G                -                         D7          G  
G C            G - D7          G
Chorus:
G - - D7          G
G - - D7           G (repeat)  
8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.
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Verses:
I got a gal and she loves me,  She's as sweet as she can be,
She's got big eyes of baby blue,  Makes my gun shoot straight and true.
 
Cripple Creek's wide and Cripple Creek's deep,  I'll wade ole Cripple Creek before I sleep,
Roll my breeches to my knees,  I'll wade ole Cripple Creek when I please.
 
I went down to Cripple Creek, To see what them girls had to eat,
I got drunk and fell against the wall, Ole corn likker was the cause of it all.
 
Cripple Creek's wide and Cripple Creek's deep,  I'll wade old Cripple Creek a fore I sleep,
Roads are rocky and the hillside's muddy,  And I'm so drunk that I can't stand steady.
 
Chorus:
Goin' up cripple creek goin' on the run, Goin' up cripple creek to have some fun.
Goin' up cripple creek goin' on the run, Goin' up cripple creek to have some fun.
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Listen to Jim play along with "Cripple Creek" on the 5-string banjo (click here)
 
Listen to The Mountineers play this song with 5-string picking
 
Here is a "Basic Strum" used to play "Cripple Creek" (click here for youtube video)
"Cripple Creek" as played in the above video (click here for a pdf diagram)
 
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Click here for 5-String Banjo Tab
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff
 
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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com