Bile 'em Cabbage Down

Notation: traditional
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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 down,
    Turn dem hoecakes round round,
    The only song that I can sing,
    Is bile dem cabbage down.

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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Possum in a 'simmon tree,
Raccoon on the ground.
Raccoon says, "You son-of-a-gun,
Shake some 'simmons down!"
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Grandma had a muley cow,
Muley she was born,
It took a jay bird thirty year
To fly from horn to horn.
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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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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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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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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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Raccoon has a bushy tail,
Possum's tail is bare,
Rabbit's got no tail at all
Just a little bitty bunch of hair.
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Raccoon and the possum
Rackin' cross the prairie,
Raccoon ax the possum
Did she want to marry?
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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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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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