Lyr Req: Children's version Cripple Creek Girls?

02 Mar 06 - 09:50 PM (#1683814)
Subject: Lyr Req: Children's version Cripple Creek Girls?
From: GUEST,rose

Hello-

i need help finding a children's friendly version of Cripple Creek girls..i heard some of it once and having a hard time finding lyrics. any help would be great!!

thanks.

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02 Mar 06 - 10:42 PM (#1683893)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Children's version Cripple Creek Girl
From: Joe Offer

Hi, Rose - there's a Revels CD called John Langstaff Sings Jackfish and More Songs For Singing Children. that CD has a cut called "Cripple Creek Girls," and I'm sure it's suitable for children.

Check the crosslinks above for other versions of "Cripple Creek."

-Joe Offer-

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Here's the Traditional Ballad Index entry for "Cripple Creek II," as collected in the southern Appalachians by Cecil Sharp:

Cripple Creek (II) (Buck Creek Girls)

DESCRIPTION: "Buck Creek girl, don't you want to go to Cripple Creek? Cripple Creek girl, don't you want to go to town?" (x2). Alternately, "Buck Creek girls, don't you want to go to Somerset? Somerset girl, don't you want to go to town?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1918
KEYWORDS: nonballad travel
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Sharp/Karpeles-80E 64, "Cripple Creek" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #3434
RECORDINGS:
Banjo Bill Cornett, "Buck Creek Girls" (on MMOK, MMOKCD)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Buck Creek Gal
Notes: Not to be confused with the fiddle tune/old time dance of the same name ("Going up to Cripple Creek..."). - RBW
File: SKE64

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Here' are the complete lyrics from Eighty English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians Collected by Cecil J. Sharp and Maud Karpeles:

Cripple Creek

Buck Creek girl, don't you want to go to Cripple Creek?
Cripple Creek girl, don't you want to go to town?
Buck Creek girl, don't you want to go to Cripple Creek?
Cripple Creek girl, don't you want to go to town?


Alternative Version:

Buck Creek girls, don't you want to go to Somerset?
Somerset girl, don't you want to go to town?
Buck Creek girls, don't you want to go to Somerset?
Somerset girl, don't you want to go to town?

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Click to play

Not much to it, is there?

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Sample Here (click)

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02 Mar 06 - 10:46 PM (#1683899)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Children's version Cripple Creek Girls?
From: Peace

'"John Langstaff Sings The Jackfish and More Songs for Singing Children" is cheerful, if flawed, with pleasant musical accompaniment and could be enjoyed by children age five and younger.'

from

www.greenmanreview.com/jackfish.htm

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05 Mar 06 - 10:56 AM (#1685618)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Children's version Cripple Creek Girls?
From: GUEST

thanks for all the help. Great! Would anyone have any ideas for recordings of the song..i heard the John Langstaff Sings Jackfish and More Songs For Singing Children version...looking for other versions..thanks so much.

I love turning to this site for info.

it's addicting!!

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26 Oct 07 - 12:00 PM (#2179745)
Subject: Lyr Add: CRIPPLE CREEK
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)

This is how we sing Cripple Creek at my school:

1. I got a gal at the head of the creek,
Go up to see her 'bout three times a week.
She's got eyes of baby blue,
An' her love for me is true.

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

2. Cripple Creek's wide an' Cripple Creek's deep,
Gonna wade ol' Cripple Creek 'fore I sleep.
Roll my britches to my knees,
'An wade ol' Cripple Creek when I please. REFRAIN

4. I went down to Cripple Creek,
To see what them gals had to eat.
What they cooked, I couldn't eat at all,
Harder than a brick in the wall. REFRAIN

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