"Bile Dem Cabbage Down" ~ lyrics

These are from the Lomax collction "Folk Songs of North America" and were
collected by and from Peggy Seeger. As often happens, some lyrics do other duty finding a place in other melodies and songs, such as "Old Joe Clark"...
duty here and can be found used for other melodies/song, like for "Old Joe
Clark"...

1.) Went up on the mountain
Just to give my horn a blow
Thought I heard my true love say
Yonder comes my beau

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Bile dem cabbage down
Turn dem hoecakes round
The only song that I can sing
Is bile dem cabbage down

2.) Took my gal to the blacksmith shop
To have her mouth made small
She turned around a time or two
And swallowed shop and all

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3.) Possum in a 'simmon tree
Raccoon on the ground
Raccoon says you son-of-a-gun
Shake some 'simmons down

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4.) Someone stole my old 'coon dog
Wish they'd bring him back
He chased the big hogs through the fence
And the little ones through the crack

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5.) Met a possum in the road
Blind as he could be
Jumped the fence and whipped my dog
And bristled up at me

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6.) Once I had an old gray mule
His name was Simon Slick
He'd roll his eyes and back his ears
And how that mule would kick

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7.) How that mule would kick
He kicked with his dying breath
He shoved his hind feet down his throat
And kicked himself to death

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8.)Raccoon has a bushy tail,
Possum's tail is bare,
Rabbit's got no tail at all
But a little bunch of hair.

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9.) Raccoon and the possum
Rackin' cross the prairie,
Raccoon ax the possum
Did she want to marry?

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10.) Possum is a cunning thing,
He travels in the dark,
And never thinks to curl his tail
Till he hears old Rover bark.

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11.) Possum up a 'simmon tree
Raccoon on the ground
Raccoon says to the possum,
Won't you shake them 'simmons down?

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12.) Jaybird died with the whoopin' cough,
Sparrow died with the colic.
Along come the frog with a fiddle on his back,
Inquirin' his way to the frolic.

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