Songs with verses about [o]possums, [rac]coons, and [per]simmon trees:

In the DT:
Bile Dem Cabbage Down
Blue-Eyed Girl

In the Forum:
Sugar Hill
Boil Them Cabbage Down
Boil Them Cabbage Down - source unknown
Cotton Field Song from the Lomaxes.
Old Hat recorded by the Leake County Revelers.