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...."
>