1) When I get off of this mountain, you know where I want to go?
2) Good luck had just stung me, to the race track I did go.
3) I took up all of my winnings and I gave little Bessie half.
4) Me and my mate we were back at the shack, we had Spike Jones on the box.
5) There's a flood out in California and up north it's freezing cold.
1) Straight down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
2) She bet on one horse to win and I bet on another to show.
3) She tore it up and threw it in my face just for a laugh.
4) She says, "I can't take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk."
5) And this living on the road is getting pretty old.
1) To Lake Charles, Louisianna, little Bessie, a girl who I once knew.
2) The odds were in my favor, I had them five to one.
3) There's one thing in the whole wide world I sure would like to see.
4) Now that just gave my heart a throb to the bottom of my feet.
5) So I guess I'll call up my big mama, tell her I'll be rolling in.
1) She told me just to come on by if there's anything that she could do.
2) That nag to win came around the track, sure enough she had won.
3) That's when that little love of mine dips her doughnut in my tea.
4) And I swore as I took another pull, my Bessie can't be beat.
5) But you know, deep down, I'm kind of tempted ,To go and see my Bessie again.
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