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: 1917 (Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians)
KEYWORDS: nonballad travel
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians 241, "Cripple Creek, or Buck Creek Girl" (2 short texts, 2 tunes)
Sharp/Karpeles-EightyEnglishFolkSongs 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 [18 words]: Not to be confused with the fiddle tune/old time dance of the same name ("Going up to Cripple Creek..."). - RBW
Last updated in version 6.4
File: SKE64

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