This version is a fine evocation of autumn and its associated foods, transcribed from a sound file at the Honking Duck website.

BILE DEM CABBAGE DOWN
Harlan Miners Fiddlers, 1940.
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1. Corn blades rustlin' in the breeze, pumpkins on the ground,
Squirrels a-chirpin' in the trees, boil them cabbage down.

CHORUS: Boil them cabbage down. Bake that hoe-cake brown.
All the song that I can sing is boil them cabbage down.
Boil them cabbage down. Bake that hoe-cake brown.
All the song that I can sing is boil them cabbage down.

2. Bobwhite in the meadow, buckwheat turnin' brown,
Apple cider in the keg, boil them cabbage down.

3. Sorghum molasses in the keg, chestnuts roasted brown,
Buttermilk and cornbread too, boil them cabbage down.

4. Spare ribs in the oven, sweet 'taters all around,
Brother possum fat an' fine, boil them cabbage down.