Chorus:
Boil them cabbage down, boys,
Turn them hoecakes 'round,
Only song that I can sing is
Boil them cabbage down.

Raccoon has a bushy tail,
Possum's tail is bare.
Rabbit ain't got no tail at all but a
Little bitty bunch o' hair.

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Raccoon and the possum,
Racin' cross the prairie.
Raccoon ask the possum,
Did she want to marry.

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Possum is a cunnin' thing,
Travels in the dark,
Never thinks to curl her tail
'Til she hears ol' Rover bark.

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Possum up a 'simmon tree,
Raccoon on the ground,
Raccoon say to the possum,
"Won't you shake them 'simmons down?"
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Jaybird died of the whoopin' cough,
Sparrow died of the colic.
'Long come a frog with a fiddle on his back
Inquirin' his way to the frolic.
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