The Band did it long before the Greatful Dead. I still have the sheet music. On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Mark Laurence Shanks wrote: > In <[log in to unmask]> Adrienne DeArmas > <[log in to unmask]> writes: > > > >In a message dated 96-06-15 17:22:29 EDT, [log in to unmask] (J. > McCrain) > >writes: > > > ><< The Old Homestead Parlour House museum should be congratulated for > the > > wonderful job they have done presenting this rather "touchy" subject. > > (Pun intended!) When you go to Cripple Creek, don't forget to go to > the > > whore house! I did! >> > > > >Any relation to the wonderful song (by whom I do not know) which says, > "Up on > >Cripple Creek, she sends me; If I spring a leak, she mends me; I don't > have > >to speak and she defends me; a trucker's dream if I ever did see one"? > > ...that's the Greatful Dead who performed it. > > Mark Shanks > "I can name that tune in...." >