Bile That Cabbage Down
key <D> Fiddler's Companion
key <A> Benton Flippen
key <A#> Uncle Dave (different Lyrics)
key <G#> Skillet Lickers (different Lyrics)
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Went up on the mountain top
To give my horn a blow
Thought I heard somebody say
“Yonder comes my beau”
Bile ‘em cabbage down, down
Bake ‘em hoecakes brown
The only song that I can sing is bile ‘em cabbage down
Possum up a simmon tree
Racoon on the ground
Raccoon says “you son of a gun
Shake some simmons down”
Somebody stole my old dog
Wish they’d bring him back
He chased the big hogs through the fence
The little one’s through the crack
Met a possum on the road
As blind as he could be
Jumped the fence and whipped my dog
And bristled up at me
Once I had an old grey mule
Name was Simon slick
He’d roll his eye’s and back his ears &
How that mule would kick
How that mule would kick,
He kicked with his dying breath
He shoved his hind feet down his throat
& kicked himself to death