Tom: D A D E When I get off of this mountain, you know where I want to go? A D E Straight down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. A D To Lake Charles, Louisianna, little Bessie, a girl who I once knew. A D E She told me just to come on by if there's anything that she could do. A Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me. D If I spring a leak, she mends me. E I don't have to speak, she defends me. F#m G A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.