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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, Louisianna, little Bessie, a girl who I once knew.
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She told me just to come on by if there's anything that 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 don't have to speak, she defends me.
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A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.