Went up on the mountain
Just to give my horn a blow
Thought I heard my true love say
Yonder comes my beau
Bile them Cabbage down
Turn them hoecakes round
The only song that I can sing
Is bile them cabbage down
Took my gal to the blacksmith shop
To have her mouth made small
She turned around a time or two
And swallowd shop and all
Possum in a Simmon tree
Raccoon on the ground
Raccoon says you son—of—a—gun
Shake some Simmon's down
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
Met a possum in the road
Blind as he could be
Jumped the fence and whipped my dog
And bristled up at me
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
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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